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...schools had grown to such an extent that they were tacitly accepted by both University Hall and the undergraduates. The Faculty and Administration tolerated and even abetted them by quickly ignoring their existence except when there was a flagrant violation of the common law copyright which the University holds on lecture material...
...site. EURJ In Alaska, after a look at Fairbanks' ili-famed row of brothels known as "the line," Dr. W. T. Harrison, a district director of the U.S. Public Health Service, said: "I did not think there was any place under the American flag where prostitution is as flagrant...
Wanton Waste. The politics-minded committee called the wartime work a "wanton waste of the taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...
President Conant, Mildred McAfee Horton of Wellesley, and Karl T. Compton of M.I.T. were among those denouncing the "flagrant flouting of the rights of citizens...
...season was released on the Indoor Athletic Building court. The Varsity not only displayed its best form of the season, but also demoralized a competent, well-drilled Columbia team, whose only recourse in the last six minutes of play was to abandon its defense almost completely and resort to flagrant personal fouls to prevent the Crimson from scoring...