Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Barnaby's racquetmen started the season with great expectations, but four of the first five men were forced to drop out, and the team took some time to get over the jolt. In the league matches with the Boston clubs, the squad has shown great improvement lately, defeating teams by safe margins that they had lost to in the first half of the season...
...American people would be given a jolt far worse than Pearl Harbor if they knew the manner in which materials to go into airplanes have been sidetracked and scuttled by brass hats in Washington. . . . Aircraft production is expected to fall off within six months unless the outmoded priority system is remedied...
After ringing up 11 consecutive victories, Coach John Chase's Yardling hockey team suffered a minor jolt yesterday afternoon, when the Dartmouth Freshman squad held the Crimson to a 4 to 4 tie at Hanover. On Saturday, the Chasemen took over St. Paul's, 3 to 1, at Concord...
Arresting three native-born Americans was a jolt to West Coast citizens. Californians began to look hard at the 33,000 Japanese aliens in their midst...
Other subjects dealt with flow in the same stream; expansion of the R.O.T.C.; further integration of the graduate schools with the college; the survey of manpower, before noted; using the war to jolt hoary, over-conservative doctrines out of academic institutions. Every thinking individual at Harvard, agreeing or disagreeing, can use President Conant's words as a springboard for answering the vital question of how to ensure that education shall be both "relevant and enduring...