Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition will end the night of the Varsity game with Army, November 11, so as to give the winning candidate, who will be in charge of the Yale Freshman game, and his selected assistants, a week to prepare for it. From this competition, several men are chosen to compete in the Sophomore year for the post of assistant manager their Junior year and Varsity manager their Senior year...
Upperclassmen in the College return tomorrow and Monday, and by Monday night officials expect to have an undergraduate body of about 3700 enrolled, approximately the same as last year...
...vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization, he deleted the sentence. One moonlight night on the Isle of Capri, a U. S. woman artist invited him to dinner, proposed marriage. By producing pictures of two nephews, claiming them as his sons, Bachelor Westermarck escaped...
EUROPE ON THE EVE-Frederick L. Schuman-Knopf ($3.50). A night-must-fall account of Europe's power politics in the tragic era, 1933-39, by a thoroughgoing scholar whose hatred for Naziism (with which, he claims, British Tories made a prearranged deal at Munich) leads to wishful-thinking...
Rimbaud shocked Verlaine's respectable family at once by getting Verlaine drunk every night. When Verlaine's wife found on Rimbaud's pillow "little insects which she had never seen before," her husband laughed. Explained Verlaine: Rimbaud keeps "such parasites in his hair to have them handy to throw on the priests" he passes. But it became necessary for Verlaine to rent a separate room for Rimbaud. There the two poets somewhat absinthe-mindedly achieved that "long et raisonné dérèglement de tons les sens" (long and calculated derangement of all the senses...