Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large H appeared on West Rock at New Haven shortly before game time, but the daubers were never apprehended. Expressions of patriotism for the old school on spots where they can easily be removed are not objected...
Born and brought up within walking distance of the Yard, and graduated from Cambridge High and Latin School, Anderson never had any doubt about which college he would attend. He entered Harvard in 1925. Since he had always been interested in music and had written his first composition at the age of 12, he majored in that subject...
...Erskine is now 70 and a professor emeritus of Columbia University, but he appears to have lost little of the confident urbanity and slick malice that became his literary trademarks. Always gallant, his defense of his Venus is both tolerant and graceful: "Her infidelities were only apparent, they were never more than intermittent, and she always went home as soon as she could...
...September 1861 Mrs. Chesnut left the charm of "dear delightful Charleston," never so courtly as during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, visited in Richmond with the Jefferson Davises, got to White Sulphur Springs in time to hear about the victory at Bull Run, then moved to Mulberry, one of her father-in-law's plantations in South Carolina...
...entered the First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among "causes" of the fever, doctors who had never heard of the germ theory listed wounded modesty, cosmic-telluric influences, fear, bad ventilation, climate and a feeling of guilt...