Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of these departments had previous balances of their own with which to write off their debts, but in the other cases the University had to come to the rescue. As a result of continued resort to this expedient over the past few years, University reserves today are less than a third of what they were...
Crimson fans who have become accustomed to seeing opponents take one squad off the field and send on another every time the ball changes hands will find that the Cross uses even less of a two-platoon system than Harvard. About two-thirds of the Holy Cross team goes both ways, as opposed to about half of the Harvard team...
...wasn't just sheer weight of numbers that did it, either. Marching about 125 pieces--less than half the number fielded a week ago for the anniversary--the band exhibited its customary proficiency in concert formation...
Since the League of Independents ran on a more or less negative platform, it was itself perhaps surprised to have gained so large a percentage of the vote. We may say that it is pro-Nazi in the same sense that the other parties are pro-Nazi because they attempted to capture the vote of ex-Nazis. U. S. authorities in Austria, however, are reserving judgment as to its totalitarian nature until they can observe its action in Parliament. Perhaps the Europe-traveling editors of the CRIMSON might do the same. R. Gerald Livingston...
Skinner places his pigeons in a small closed box with a button in one wall. The birds must peck at this button at least once every five minutes to be paid off with food. The eager but ignorant pigcon, however, not knowing he will get the same reward with less exertion, will hammer away rapidly for great lengths of time to get his dinner...