Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upperclassmen who last year were accustomed to allowing only 25 seconds before their 9 o'clock classes to drop a book at the booth by the front door of Widener Library have been delayed this year over one minute by having to carry the book all the way upstairs...
...dashed through the streets, waving market baskets, taking part in a drive to enlist men who had failed to go to the front. At week's end came the first daytime air raid on the capital. Under orders from White Generalissimo Francisco Franco no effort was made to drop heavy bombs. White aviators contented themselves with cutting didos in the air, ripping off belts of machine gun bullets at the sidewalks of Madrid. When the planes had gone and the racket ceased the streets were dotted white with leaflets calling on Madrid to surrender before the real hell...
...volume of cheers everywhere drowned them out. A few hecklers he handled deftly, but now & then, even in rural regions where he met the warmest welcome, he failed to stir a crowd to the enthusiasm it was ready to give. Then he would abandon his troublesome notes and drop in a remark which always got response: "I guess you folks are down here to look me over. That goes both ways. I'm glad to look you over, too." But most successful moment in every rear platform audience was when, his talking done, he grinned his natural grin, leaned...
...year men. Coming from distant states and new to university life they rightly expect some mature, personal guidance. That they do not get this assistance is indicated by the cynical disrespect which most upperclassmen hold for the system, a feeling epitomized in the classic farewell of advisor to advice--"Drop in again any time. Next April, for instance...
Today is the last day upon which undergraduates may change courses (drop or add) without liability of the course fee. Petitions must be filed in person at Room O, University Hall...