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...Save for John Davenport and Pierson, recently completed, which are red brick Georgian. To match nearby buildings Davenport has a novel Gothic facade. Scornful of Yale's architecture, the perky Harkness Hoot this month lists these styles, all to be found on the campus: Nondescript-General Grant, American Colonial-Georgian, French Renaissance Classic, Moorish, Lombard-Romanesque, Venetian, Greek Temple, Gothic...
...that proof of all he charged was in his possession - "documentary proof." He declared that after the Italian Government suppressed all parties except the Fascist Party, members of the former Catholic Party took refuge in Azione Cattolica, soon made it political. As time passed, continued Premier Mussolini, numerous and nondescript elements hostile to Fascism have taken refuge from the Law by joining Azione, have evolved an organization which is subversive of the Italian State...
...three of the upper College classes, and perhaps one or more of his tutors, all presumably good neighbour who can be dropped in on at reasonable hours. This is a palace revolution from the bad old days when undergraduatos were abandoned to miscellaneous College or private domormitories and nondescript houses, even three-decker wooden tenements, eating at one-armed lunches, seeking only little sets of personal acquaintances, often very narrow ones, and tutors except professionally or at a starched reception. Such were the conditions which prompted Professor George Pierce Baker to observe with praiseworthy candor one Easter recess, when...
...censorship obscured, two soldiers were burned to death in an armored car ignited by natives. But most frightful of all were atrocities at Sholapur. This city - a cotton-spinning metropolis of 12,000 - was for a time virtually ruled by various mobs, some followers of the Saint, others a nondescript rabble out to loot while looting was good. After 50 deaths, 400 woundings, disorder continued. As a crowning horror three Mohammedan policemen were seized by Hindus, drenched with gasoline and burned. Despatches disagreed as to whether they were "burned alive...
Magazine solicitors. Many a person has answered the door bell to find a nondescript young person who represented himself as working his way through college by selling magazines. The National Association of Travelers' Aid Societies made known that it had returned to their families over 100 such young agents, mostly girls. The Association found the purchasers often deceived about the solicitors' academic ambitions, the solicitors themselves often unfairly treated. Its report, in the case of one soliciting crew: the manager "had mastered them ... in high finance. They had gaily signed a lot of documents which made them very nearly peons...