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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean George H. Nettleton said he was conducting a "routine investigation, to give the boys a chance to tell their side of the story." Mean while the three, a Freshman, a Sophomore and a Junior forfeited the $25 bonds which they were compelled to post in Auburndale in exchange for their freedom, and returned to their New Haven classrooms...
Classifications vertically mean Mild Belly Ache, Acute ditto; Cramps and Ulcers are self-explanatory...
Congo & Security. A visit of state is ipso facto not a business visit, but Leopold III is expected to busy himself finding out what the British Government mean by a startling decision they took last week. This was to send to visit Adolf Hitler this week the notably pro-German Viscount Halifax, whose Cabinet post is Lord President of the Council. With all Europe assuming that Halifax & Hitler will talk over Germany's demands for colonial territory; her aspirations in Austria and Czechoslovakia; and her intentions toward Soviet Russia, now that Germany, Italy and Japan have made an anti...
...does not consider that Germany will next fight westward toward Belgium and France, but instead eastward if at all, and His Majesty is known to anticipate no such war for at least another two years. The new Belgian foreign policy keynotes "Independence!" and by this the Government and King mean, and have given Belgium's solemn assurance, that Belgian forces will at once engage and fight any forces which attempt to pass over Belgium by air or by land to attack a country beyond. Moreover, Brussels will instantly warn London, Paris or Berlin if an air armada is heard...
...aware of Hemingway and Proust. Mr. Laughlin's style is sometimes mannered because it is initiative: "Walking and sometimes talking, walking slowly, talking lightly, not hurrying and not delaying, hardly thinking what we are saying; so walking and so lightly quietly talking . . ." Or again, "'What does it mean, Craig, where are they going, where are we going?' 'You tell me, why don't you!'" Mr. Laughlin is still in the process of finding his own style, of finding complete artistic sincerity: his story poses his own problem...