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Complaints generally hit the lack of tutorial in the junior year necessitating the usual thesis grind near the end of the senior year. Also students feel that there is a definite lack of synthesis between History and Science--many fail to see any correlation between American History and Mathematics. The requirement is usually fulfilled by writing on a historical subject--again a lack of synthesis...
...will make it absolutely intolerable for them We will make them sit up night and day and grind away until they get absolutely hysterical and say we cannot stand any more...
...early morning zealots. If the deadline were 9:15, as the council requests, books wouldn't be ready until 9:30, and no one can accomplish much in half an hour. Even if late sleepers lose some money, Lamont should not deprive everyone of a chance to grind in the morning...
...America could survive alone." Said Dewey flatly: "It could not . . . fortress America is an illusion." The fall of Europe would mean Russian domination over Africa and Asia. Essential raw materials of munitions-chromite, manganese, bauxite, uranium-come from the mines of Africa and Asia. Without them, "our industry would grind to a halt." U.S. troops to Europe are a matter of "necessity for our self-preservation...
Beverly Baker, 20, a pert, sloe-eyed redhead from Santa Monica, is less singleminded. "I hate the grind of practicing. I don't like living out of a suitcase. In fact, I don't care much for traveling. I like home." But on the court Beverly is all business, takes quiet pride in the fact that she is the only player in big-time tennis who can shift hands for each shot: "I play a gambling game, looking for quick winners. Why drag a match out for two hours if you can get it over with...