Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty vote to combat the system with an official program. A year later, on May 21, 1940, another faculty vote made undergraduates liable to disciplinary action if they employed "the services of a commercial tutoring school." Although the battle had been largely won, the system did not die easily. Two days after the ban had been enacted, the Crimson was able to obtain a picture of a Parker-Cramer cram session going full blast. Parker-Cramer promptly filed suit for $55,000 and lost...
This controversy also resulted in its being seen in 60 towns that had never before seen a theatrical production, and, at one point, 32 cities were seeing the double bill of "Waiting for Lefty" and "Till the Day I Die," another play by Odets, at the same time...
...streets. Running wild, they broke lampposts, smashed windows right and left and generally terrified the inhabitants until Schmidt got them rounded up. "Sweden," sobbed Trainer Schmidt as his beasts were taken in charge, "is making a great mistake. Those elephants love each other. If they are parted, they will die...
When Paricutin first poked its red-hot nose out of Dionisio Polido's cornfield on Feb. 20, 1943, geologists predicted it would soon die down. But it fooled the experts and kept on growing. In its first year, spewing lava, ash and massive "bombs," Paricutin grew 1,290 feet. It is still adding slowly to its present height (1,380 ft). Geologists estimate that it has ejected by now 1,058,220,800 tons of material. The crater, for the moment, is in a quiet phase, with only a dull glow at night and a pillar of smoke...
...fought as a girl in the Civil War of 1917-18, shared with her husband Ivan the later years of consecrated work for The Party-years she remembers now with bitterness. Ivan was taken in the purge of Old Bolsheviks in 1937, broken by torture, and later sent to die in an ill-equipped People's Guard Battalion before the German armored thrust at Moscow. She explains to Ferguson how the Old Bolsheviks, Lenin's friends, triumphed over Stalin in the first hour of the Moscow Trials. Until the Khozyain (the Boss) woke up to what was happening...