Word: disruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven-fifteen. If, encouraged by such a reform, the remaining Houses add the high table to their weekly dinners, they may well follow the model of Lowell, where the tutors and their guests eat apart from the rest. A high table for all the Houses, which does not disrupt normal eating, should enough improve the socio-intellectual life of each to satisfy the supporters of culture through cuisine...
...emphasizes a situation in the athletic program which has existed here for some time. Concentrators in the sciences like chemistry, biology or physics, students doing part-time work, and members of the Graduate Schools who spend their afternoons in study, find that they must either forego exercise entirely, or disrupt their daily schedule in order to get some needed physical relaxation. Such a situation occurs because the H.A.A. limits the hours at which the gym is available and, during available hours, facilities are often monopolized by varsity squads...
...delegate to the council. Thereupon sober churchmen resorted to a mediator. They succeeded in suppressing a sharp reply to Mr. Babson, which had been printed for distribution to the delegates, and winning from Mr. Babson a promise that he would "do nothing and say nothing which will disrupt the good-will of this gathering...
While a carefully survey showed that such a plan would be physically possible, with the exception of overcrowding in some of the House libraries, chief objections raised by the House masters, unanimously opposed to the plan, were that associate members would disrupt the normal community spirit of the House the report said. Fear was expressed that such an innovation might prove an entering wedge in making the Houses into dormitories...
...Japanese bombers over Canton where in a series of raids they killed 1,000 persons, wounded 1,500, destroyed the Wongsha Railroad Station, and demolished an entire train in an effort to disrupt China's major munitions route...