Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read of the killing of the truck driver by a "mob" yesterday, Sears rushed through a long distance call to his father. He begged for permission to ride with the next truck into Boston, Sears senior who often drives his trucks himself, denied his son's plea to "get in on it," and his mother ordered him to stay out of any strike mix ups in Cambridge. "If I can get some support I won't stay out of anything," he proclaimed...
More than two hundred names were affixed to a petition demanding a marriage course; that, in itself, means nothing. It is possible to get two hundred students to sign anything, except possibly a Crimson poll. But a course on marriage has its serious aspects. Harvard has already experimented in this field with the Birth Control hoax and a course called Hygiene I. The former was discontinued because the doors were locked, the latter because the students seemed to be well aware of the purely sexual problems involved. Recently several institutions instituted subjects dealing with the sociological elements of marriage...
...odds the cleverest ball handler to wear the Crimson spangles since the start of Wes Fesler's coaching regime here. In Captain Lupien the Varsity quintet has a dependable defensive player and a sterling competitor. He gave B.U's Solly Nechtem a tough fight, never allowing him to get a shot within the free-throw area, and Lupe held his Wesleyan foe scoreless...
...Legation was located. Every day he walked ten miles to work, seized every opportunity to learn English and study the commercial ways of Americans. Goggle-eyed with admiration for all things American, he stole American food from the kitchen, and even strangled pigs, dogs and rats to get meat which he thought would make him civilized and powerful like the foreigners...
Tufts played its best brand of ball before a capacity crowd. The Jumbos presented a tightly-knit defense and broke up Crimson passes time and time again. The Feslermen were never able to get a fast-breaking attack started, and their scoring was limited to an occasional basket by Charley Lutz or Homer Peabody. The latter turned in the evening's best defensive job as he held center Charley Tibbs to six points...