Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Backs R. D. Bacon, B. F. Bell, H. W. Bigelow, Stewart Boal Paul Capron, C. B. Caraegie, N. S. Clifford, W. N. Cohen, S. L. Cohn, F. S. Cunningham, F. M. Dallowalla, G. P. Davis, A. E. Erickson, A. E. French, F. S. Grant, David Guaranecia, G. D. Hastings, T. A. C. Hollander, D. H. Holzman, J. E. King, Charles McGehee, J. E. McKesson, Arthur Malls, D. M. Owens, C. R. Porter, R. A. Pease, P. S. Ram, W. S. Rice, A. P. Rogers, A. R. Salamond, G. M. Saum, W. M. Sheehan, S. F. Stanley, S. B. Trainer, David...
...more than unusual. In all the voluminous American undergraduate press, no such survey as the CRIMSON'S morning issue comprises has ever been printed. Editorial comment on study occasionally appears in the college press. Changes in the schedule of classes, official bulletins, are always published. But this liberal grant of space to the essential work men come to college for is without precedent. The CRIMSON'S "Confidential Guide to the Curriculum," in which the merits and demerits of forty Harvard courses are briefly assessed by men who have taken them, is presented with all the care and effort customarily reserved...
...consider it an honor to be termed "spry." Mr. Burbank is better than spry-he is agile, can stand on his head. This month will round out his 50th year at Santa Rosa, where, aided by the Carnegie Foundation, the Burbank Society and a Federal land grant, he has directed the evolution of plant life so patiently and ingeniously as to produce, among other useful oddities, the spineless cactus, once a nuisance, now a fodder; fat, perennial rhubarb out of a skinny annual; plums with thick skins that endure the rigors of shipping and without pits, which eliminates an annoyance...
...Camp Grant On the old rifle range at Camp Grant, Ill., two miles from the cantonment, a Negro regiment of the Illinois National Guard was engaged in routine practice with a one-pound Howitzer. Servicing of the gun was proceeding without accident, as on countless former occasions. Black bodies bent and sweated in accustomed rhythm. Periodically gunners tugged at their lanyards, set off the propelling charge of their shells with the monotonous routine of well ordered automita...
Reports began to filter in of desertions from Abd-el-Krim to the French. Several chieftains who had gone over to the Riffian leader were alleged to have offered to return, help fight the Riffians, if only the French would pardon them, grant them arms and munitions. At the same time, it was reported that the Riffians were subjecting unwilling warriors to barbaric cruelties, "such as cutting off their arms and legs in the presence of women...