Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crystal ball, mental telepathy, or any other clairvoyant device, Philip H. Thayer '45 of Waban and Apley Court last night won a number-guessing contest held in the Union, and was awarded a free ticket to the Leverett House Winter Formal dance by the Bunny Hop Committee...
...draft basis, Washington has come closer and closer to a sensible solution to the college degree problem. For the first year, Seniors were exempted from the draft, and the colleges remained relatively untapped by the services of Uncle Sam. As Army and Navy expansion programs began to hop into the less conservative millions, the provision exempting Seniors was struck out of the Draft Bill, and the age limit was lowered to twenty. With a sizable percentage of college men now in danger of getting neither sheepskin nor commission, the Navy came through last December with a V-7 plan. This...
They finally got a train to take them to Corinth on their way to Athens and, they hoped, a telegraph office. By this time the Germans held the other side of the Gulf and Nazi planes had only a short hop to strafe the railroad on the other side. Their train, barnacled with soldiers on roof and sides, was raked again & again with machine-gun bullets. Three out of four of the reporters who were riding together were wounded, one seriously. St. John says he did not know that he had been shot through the thigh until he finally reached...
...knowing the radio frequency for sending, could not break into this interesting conversation. He gingerly brought the Clipper in on its straight course and landed safely. But this was not the roughest part of the trip. The crew of the Clipper had the worst time on its last hop. Coming up from South America the weather was so bad that most of them were airsick for the first time in their lives...
...that flight the Cuba made a 3,300-mile hop across the South Atlantic, added on an 800-mile detour around bad weather and landed with gas in its tanks...