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...upset win, a great performance considering that it came after a two-week hiatus, was one of the biggest in the country this season, and certainly one of the biggest in Harvard swimming history...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HARVARD SPORTS | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Wechsler likens himself to Rip Van Winkle,although he concedes that his 42-year hiatus hasbeen somewhat longer than the fabled old man'sslumber...

Author: By James E. Black, | Title: Escaped Communist Returns for Reunion | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Hitler seized on the Allied hiatus to organize a 24-division counteroffensive through Belgium's Ardennes Forest in December -- and Eisenhower came into his own as a combat general. He issued the orders that cut off the Bulge -- a German penetration westward into Allied lines 45 miles wide and 65 miles deep -- and made certain it would fail. He sent the 101st Airborne to hold the key city of Bastogne, put three other divisions into the battle and ordered Patton to turn his Third Army 90 degrees to the north to cut the advancing Germans' supply lines. The German counteroffensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: IKE'S INVASION | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...subset of courses where in the nature of the discipline it makes sense for learning to take place in a form of ongoing class meetings rather than have a hiatus period for major projects, meeting in reading period is sensible," Buell says...

Author: By Tom HORAN Jr., | Title: Reading Period Gets Shorter | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...fall of the next year, 1993, however, Fraiberg took a hiatus from squash to study in India for the semester. The experience was a rewarding one for the then-junior, but one not without unfavorable consequences...

Author: By Andrew D. Zucker, | Title: Fraiberg Closes Out Impressive Career | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

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