Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the end of their fifth week of study approaching and Dean Paul H. Buck's office calling for ratings, the boys knew that something was bound to happen...
Before you leave today, stop in and see Lupy's sun tan. If you like to work with yearbooks, see Bill Brown. Oh, yes. Killer Grew wants to visit some factories near by We think it's a good idea, except it shouldn't happen during liberty. G'bye 'till next Friday; one column a week is trouble enough
This Navy College Training Program is a wonderful thing, especially in that it does make college possible for many who might otherwise have had to cut short their education for economic reasons. A similar program after the war would be one of the best things that could happen to American education. And incidentally, it was James B. Conant, president of this University who first started plugging for such a plan...
...none of these things have progressed beyond the gleam-in-the-eye stage, and the above isn't even at attempt at a blueprint. It's simply what might happen if things work out nicely. No one has had time to do any real planning yet, because of the press of other duties, but two weeks time should see a good deal settled, or at least on that blueprint stage. At the end of his week, the V-12ers will have been classified as a result of the physical fitness test they will have taken, and that program will...
...Gerald F. Loughlin, chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, gave the answer: "No." Reporting to his volcanic boss, Secretary of Interior Ickes, Dr. Loughlin estimated that the chances were three or four million to one against a blockbuster touching off a volcanic eruption. It might happen, said he, if a bomb hit a rock wedged in the vent of a volcano which was just barely holding the volcanic force back. But, he added, "the earth forces involved are so enormous as compared with any that man can bring to bear that the latter are wholly inconsequential...