Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense council which built a defense-in-depth system across the Karelian Isthmus. Fashionable, popular way for Finns to spend their vacation the past two years was to go dig on the Mannerheim Line. This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands and, besides pillboxes and blockhouses, it contains a maze of tank traps and barriers. The fields and fir forests here are studded with granite boulders, which the Finns arranged in serried ranks, buried deeply with their jagged points sticking six feet...
...last stanza, allowing the Jayvees to push over two touchdowns, one on a pass from "Squibby" Squibb to Gordon and the other on a short pass, Bigwood to Kayser. Fumbling the pass from center in an attempted kick for the extra point, Feary plunged over through a maze of Terrier tacklers to make the score...
...tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...
...great was the wreckage and so widespread the crisis that what the U. S. had left in the way of wits, worldly goods and political institutions, looked impressive. No catalogue could communicate the wealth of U. S. natural resources, no two experts could wholly agree about the maze of surplus commodities, farm income, legislative measures, mortgages, Government loans, the export market, yield per acre, drought and erosion, that is known as the agricultural problem. But in simple, physical terms, the U. S. still had, after ten years of Depression...
Second, Mr. Conant may intend to expand the ranks of the associate professors by the appropriate number sometime in the future. However, he would fill these new positions by new men coming up from below--men who are as yet lost in the maze of instructorships or who have not yet arrived at Harvard--instead of by choosing from among the ten assistant professors. Then in effect he is saying that he expects to find better men for these jobs in the future than he can find at present among...