Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If the Michigan game last Saturday proved nothing else, it proved that the widely heralded Michigan Band really is the marvel it is supposed to be, and that in point of execution the Harvard Band cannot hold a candle to it. Certainly the Michigan Band, subsidized by the Buick Company...
It is this question of conducting and rehearsing on which the Harvard Band becomes stymied, and where Michigan really goes into action. The Michigan boys practice three hours a day every day in the week under a professional conductor, and I have been told that they get course credit for...
The date customarily regarded as the founding of Harvard is October 28, 1636, when the Great and General Court of Massachusetts "agreed to give 400 pounds toward a schoale or colledge." But according to Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, latter day Columbia, and official Harvard historian, "Over a...
The Luftwaffe. The thinking and planning and training that went into the German Air Force began a dozen years ago, but its physical entities-the men and machines-were assembled beginning in 1935. The Luftwaffe is only five years old. Its history was embodied in the activities of two men...
Biggest Catch of all were copies of a Nazi manifesto, so inflammatory that authorities no longer described the suspects vaguely as fifth columnists (as such liable only to deportation) but as outright traitors involved in un caso de pis tola (a case for summary execution).