Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than three weeks the fat to muscle metamorphosis of the allegedly physically dormant Harvard man is scheduled to begin. Yet with compulsory athletics all but an actuality, the plans and policies of University Hall, the HAA, and the Hygiene Department are still in the amendment stage. The initially iron-clad announcement of supervised conditioning for all has been relaxed to allow credit for geology field trips, team managing, and possibly bicycling as well as for participation in Naval and Military Science, and Varsity and House athletics. Apparently the compulsory athletics plan is no exception to the University's well...
After lying practically dormant for almost a week because of bad weather, the University tennis tournament suddenly sprang to life over the past weekend with almost all matches played up to the quarter final round...
...Dormant for centuries, the Curse of the Worm is apparently regaining power. The suicidal Viscount's uncle was killed in World War I. One cousin disappeared from a liner, another died in a car smash. Two years ago his grandmother was killed by a fall. When he was ten, young Lambton himself disappeared mysteriously for several days. One night last week servants heard the Viscount in the kitchen cooking his usual midnight snack of ham & eggs. Next morning they found him sprawled in a fountain on the castle lawn, his brains blown out by a charge from...
...apparently the dormant Yardling aggregation awoke from its previous stupor in Saturday's 20 to 0 set-to with Andover, when they realized practically all of Boston's dreams by pulverizing the school-boys offensively, while holding them well in check on the defense...
Another Italian push, dormant at the moment, was already part way into Kenya. This drive had a double purpose-to keep the British from driving in at Ethiopia's rear, to back up an Italian drive at the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan's rear. An attack on the Sudan, perhaps starting from Kassala, where Italian forces have long been massed, would probably aim at Khartoum, where the branches of the Nile converge...