Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repair work has been done, largely directed towards bracing departmental discipline, Sociology is greatly handicapped in pulling itself up by its own bootstraps. When such measures have been taken, unhappy concentrators, who have discovered too late their mistake about the "easiness" of this field, will no longer continue to flock to tutoring schools on the Square in numbers which put the other departments to shame...
...days we presented evidence to what was practically an empty chamber. . . . Quit talking now, boys, and behave. ... An impeachment in this case will be notice to the country that the time has come when a corporation seeking refuge in Federal Court is not a signal to crooked lawyers to flock in and feast on the carcass...
Oxford and Cambridge have for centuries employed the doctrine regarding this problem, that "birds of a feather flock together", and there is no reason to believe that the expression would not fit Harvard conditions equally will. Specifically, men should be permitted as far as possible to live in the House of their choice. Groups applying together for admission should be permitted several perfectly frank consultations with the House Master or Senior Tutor. Facts and figures should not be withheld from the student, as it is his privilege to know what he is going...
...Follow the Fleet" follows the flock of Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers dainties, which, in the past year, have delighted American lovers of song, dance, and whimsy. It musical score comes from Irving Berlin, and its plot is the product of the union of two Broadway successes, "Shore Leave" and "Hit the Deck...
...capacity of 3,000, was built for the late Russell Herman Conwell, noted for the sermon "Acres of Diamonds" which he delivered 6,152 times. Ever since he died in 1925, the Temple has been looking for "another Conwell." Dr. A. Ray Petty, who came in 1926, shocked his flock by inviting Negroes and again, when 50 parishioners started to walk out on a sermon defending Al Smith, by directing the organist to follow their steps with Chopin's Funeral March. Dr. Petty was soon replaced by Dr. Michael Joseph Twomey who abruptly resigned last April, explaining: "God says...