Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the 1946-edition of the Mikkolamen lacks pre-war depth, Coach Mikkola has hopes of supplying the necessary talent from the expected influx of new men. In the meanwhile, the big guns of the squad will be veterans Doug Pirnie, intercollegiate 220 yard record holder; Ted Withington, 50 second quarter miler; Pete Garland, winner of three first in the 1942 Freshman meet; Willo Fisher, intercollegiate 35 pound weight and hammer throw-champion; Frank Coolidge, all winning in 1942 at 100 and 220 yards; and Bill Ellis, middle distance runner...
...Wilbur J. Bender, counsellor for veterans, had been in the Navy himself and knew that Washington became confused (sometimes), so he summed up his staff's experience with the sudden influx of returning vets they had to contend with after V-J Day, and got ready for any possibility...
...York's Union Theological Seminary had a housing problem. Faced with an unexpected influx of 60-odd returned veterans next semester (two-thirds of them married, some with children) Henry Pitney Van Dusen's interdenominational residence halls were stumped. Union's housing problem spotlighted a broader and more interesting question: has the war turned more young men than usual to the service...
...Boston's influx of sailors arriving for Navy Day will be swelled tomorrow when a powerful team from the New London Submarine Base takes the field against the underdog Crimson at 2:30 o'clock in Harvard Stadium...
...unused space in Adams and Lowell House will provide living quarters for the entire influx of servicemen expected in the fall term. The House dining halls will be reopened, still on a cafeteria basis, and they will easily be able to accomodate the increase in the College population...