Word: ens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the heads of hated "loyalists." The Vagabond remembers, as the Vagabond remembers most things, how the Seniors at Harvard dressed only in American-made clothes, and held no Commencement, "on account of the confusion and distress of the times." Then it was that the College moved en masse to Concord "with all convenient speed," and one student who was absent during the whole Concord session, pleaded that he had "been found guilty and imprisoned by the General Court, for frequent clamoring, in the most impudent, insulting, and abusive language, against the American Congress." But the poor fellow was alone...
Hard hit were some 1,500 U. S. students last week en route for European medical education. They were the more enterprising of the 7,000 students refused U. S. medical education this autumn. But, promised Dr. Harold Rypins, secretary of the New York board, the 1,500 will not forever be stigmatized with medical illegitimacy, if next year they return to the U. S. and succeed in wangling admittance to U. S. schools...
...travel with an oxygen cylinder, tuberculous Maxim Gorki, famed Russian writer, arrived in Berlin en route to an anti-war congress at Amsterdam, stayed there in a hospital when Dutch authorities denied him a visa...
Vividly last week the crew of the Holland America liner Rotterdam, homeward bound from New York, displayed their national temperament. No disturbance broke the calm of the first nine days of the crossing except in the smoking room, where the Dutch Olympic team was en thusiastically breaking training. Rotterdam, the Dutch home port, was paralyzed by a seamen's strike. As the 21-year-old Rotterdam pushed her high prow past England's Bishop Rock, Rotterdam's strikers sent wireless messages to Rotterdam's crew. They were never delivered. Apparently acting under orders from the main...
...curt, bristling National Hero whom Japanese crowds call adoringly "Our Devil Tycoon" and "Our Strong Shogun" returned last week to Tokyo in terrific triumph. He, Lieut.-General Shigeru Honjo, Conqueror of Manchuria, stopped en route at a mountain spa, and was literally mobbed by U. S. and British tourists who shoved, gasped and shrilled, "Please, General, please! Your autograph! Just one more?...