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...ever witnessed in a Harvard classroom. Man and beast locked in a struggle of obstinacy while students held onto their seats and gave vocal vent to their reactions. The professor lunged at the animal, but with every lunge the dog skillfully evaded him, accompanying each parry with a resounding howl...

Author: By Yaoman Brill, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...panic in Hamburg, said returning foreigners. "The population took everything with a bitter resignation which had a terribly depressing effect on foreigners. The suffering is so tremendous that many people have been plunged into apathy." In the shelters the people crowded together for hours, listening to the howl of bombs, the crash of gunfire. Women wept, children cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Great Fear | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Tonight is Company DOG'S into to howl at the Hasty Pudding's Smoker Hall. The Platoons have been rehearsing their various skits all week and a lot of real good stuff is in the offing. Don't forget to get there early and be ready for a lot of laughs...

Author: By S. O. Merlvin parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

...first of these vernal mistakes is a rather loose-knit little clique instigated by someone known only to close subordinates as "The Howl." To everybody else "The Howl" looks like a loose-knit booby wearing a Win With Willkie mask and carrying a machete (a loose-knit pocket knife) and scaring the devil out of a couple of characters he found playing pinball in the lower reaches of J entry (left stairway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gimme a Yo-Yo, Says Howl, In Winthrop it is Spring | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...howl went up from Manhattan newspapers ; almost with one accord they asked "Why?" The arrests had been requested by the U.S. French naval chief, Vice-Admiral Raymond A. Fenard. Said the Fighting French: the sailors enlisted not for bribes or bonuses, but for moral reasons. Total enlistments: under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: North African Echo | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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