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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer's inventory, however, showed that a number of men had taken Lamont books to improve their personal libraries...
Perhaps the most striking figure in the decrease of Harvard enrollment is the number of veterans now at the University. In 1948, 7,131 veterans were enrolled. Their present representation is only 5,342 which shows a drop of 28.1 percent in a year...
Indeed, there is a lot about this business that seems fishy. The physical contact is not what it might be and points are traded back and forth too evenly. More than one jam reminded me of the jockey's query, "Where's number two? Let him through; let him through." There is also the attempt to infuse the Roller Derby with a big-time sports atmosphere (cf. announcing halftime scores of other matches, which nobody honestly cares about...
...approximately 13 years after that, hardly anything was heard about Seltzer's contribution to organized Armageddon. Then, aided by an increase in the number of television-owners, the Roller Derby all of a sudden sprang full-blown, much like Canasta. The true aficionado knows at least a few of the regular contes-around quite so fast as the men, who hit 35 m.p.h., but they provide more action, past performances and thus he knows who is good and who isn't, who the rough one are and who the fast ones are. This, of course, heightens the interest when...
...effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to steal a lap on the opposition. He is given two minutes to do this and the number of points he gets depends on how many of the opposition he passes. In the meantime, the skaters on the team that has a jammer out try to slow down the members of the other team to keep them from catching the jammer; and when the jammer comes around, his buddies...