Word: lists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near-sighted amendments are offered to the Council's report--near-sighted because they are again only advocating principles already in practice when they recommend that the National Scholarship men and Student waiters receive preference over men of equal records; near-sighted because in recommending that all Dean's List men be assured of admission, they are contradicting their own position since their cry has been to admit the all-around man rather than the so-called "grind." The proposal to assure admission to all Group IV men who have engaged in three or more major activities is rather shallow...
...Dean's List Guarantee...
Proposing that all men on the Dean's list will be guaranteed admission 'though not necessarily to their House of first choice," the petition goes on to suggest that all men in Group Four who are engaged in at least three specified "important" extra-curricular activities, also be assured a place in one of the Houses...
...Germany, which needs gold more than guns, even offered to sell to France some of the vast cache of arms seized when the Nazis marched into Czecho-Slovakia. Heading the list of bargains were 1,600 war planes. Czech Army equipment was originally financed in part by French loans...
...vivid and varied spectacle, the Aquacade Revue is almost certain to win first place in the Fair's entertainment list. Ashore, Crooners Frances Williams and Morton Downey blare out tunes good & bad while hordes of gay, limbsome "aquafemmes" prance and promenade. Afloat Swimmers Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weissmuller do a kind of aquatic waltz to music while "aquabelles" and "aquabeaux" weave patterned water ballets. A water tumbler (whom Billy Rose forgot to call an aquabat) gets laughs from the water, while four custard-pie pantomimists get laughs on land. The revue finally explodes into a patriotissimic finale, featuring...