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Uncle Rollin ran his callused fingers through his white hair, spat and said: "Well, Rile, I don't know nothin' about a college. But I know one thing. There must be a heap to larn at college or else your Andy larns mighty slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dr. Andy's Crop | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...heap of miscellaneous junk from Newell Boathouse is the University's latest contribution to the scrap drive. The buildings around Cambridge are being stripped, and have already yielded tons of the metal. This latest donation should produce about 250 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Crew Outriggers Join in Scrap Drive | 10/20/1942 | See Source »

...Weekes, though hurt, had survived. So had her class. But the headmaster, an assistant teacher and the elderly woman who took care of the laundry had all died. Of a dozen boys who had left one street for school that morning, only four were still alive. From the rubble heap left by the Junkers' bombs and from the streets near by, where some of the children had been hurled, 24 bodies were recovered. Two of these were not identifiable and six boys could not be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Casualties and Some Damage | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Leverett House residents were going around yesterday with happy smiles on their faces when the preference list for football seats was announced. For the result of the straw-drawing held in Athletic Director Bill Bingam's office yesterday morning saw the Bunny Hutch end up on top of the heap, with "Miscellaneous" (Dudley, rooming houses, and the like) running second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES TAKE CHOICE SEATS FOR FOOTBALL | 9/16/1942 | See Source »

...lolled at anchor in the Willamette River in downtown Portland last week the sunbeams wriggled through her superstructure, flicked over the letters OREGON. Once she was the bravest battleship in the U.S. Fleet, the heroine and toast of the whole U.S. Now Washington had consigned her to the junk heap, where her 10,300 tons of steel, copper and brass could be turned into fighting metals for World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of the Oregon | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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