Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thorough training in the groundwork of journalism is available this week to Sophomores interested in competing for several vacancies on the CRIMSON News Board. In addition, the Business Board will hold a competition, also for second-year men, beginning tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock...
...military obstacle with machine-gun and rapid-fire artillery emplacements along it. long the bank nearest Germany, all trees and underbrush have been removed to give a clear field for defensive fire. The confident Allied view is that if Germany should strike again from Aachen, the Belgians could hold her until French and British forces could come up at least to the canal and the secondary defense behind the Liége forts. In command of Belgian defense is General E. M. Van den Bergen, who has been busy on plans and works since the Belgian Parliament voted to intensify...
Many a psychologist conducts his researches on animal intelligence by noting how rats run through a maze. If you were a psychologist, and got hold of a race of rats showing high susceptibility to constipation, fallen arches, varicose veins, stomach ulcers, hernia, sagging viscera, poor circulation, crooked and decaying teeth, spinal curvature, sacroiliac trouble, bad tonsils and audible adenoids, you would undoubtedly find this afflicted race much more stupid at maze running than normal, healthy rats. You would conclude that rats with the best biological endowment are the most intelligent rats, and that your afflicted, stupid rat race was headed...
...famed U. S. newspaper correspondent was in Poland when the War began. Some of them had stayed in London and Paris, waiting for another Munich. Some who had thought that Poland would hold out for weeks or months were caught napping. Others had looked for a big battle on the Western Front when Polish fighting bogged down in mud that never came. One & all, they cooled their heels last week, copied official hand-outs from the Ministry of Information in London, drank pernods at the bar of the Hotel Lancaster in Paris, while youngsters who had never seen...
...Freshmen meet tonight for their discussion, with Lowell tomorrow evening and Eliot on Thursday. The dormitories, Claverley, Dudley, Apley, and Little, will also hold their meeting on Thursday. Dates for the other Houses are not yet definite...