Word: overrunning
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...House ideal, where students who wish to study, meditate, palaver, or what have you are free from feminine interruptions. Between for and seven, the argument goes, it's time for entertainment and no one works anyway. But, during the afternoon the alarms and excursions involved in allowing girls to overrun the Houses are distinctly out of place, and must be specially forbidden. Perhaps, too, the Administrative Board fears that liberal rules might induce students "to forego the rich intellectual fare they would otherwise plan, and give themselves over to entertainment...
Dismantled down to its premise (and assuming that Houses now are overrun, a singularly doubtful point), this resembles regulating teeth-brushing and other personal trivia regulating teeth-brushing and other personal trivia which the University usually and properly ignores. Why is it the Administrative Board's business whether undergraduates can or do allocate their time properly, how well they battle temptation to slough off their studies, or whether roommates impede each other? Surely, as in any other matter of personal friction and decision, students are quite competent to make their own choices, seek then own relief...
HERMAN G. FELHOELTER, 36, Roman Catholic; killed in action July 16, 1950, while serving with the 19th Infantry Regiment. He, also, had stayed behind with his unit's wounded when the lines were overrun. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross...
...Frontier. The only solution was to pull back from Göring's finest bases to safer territory on the west bank of the Rhine, far enough away from the Iron Curtain to give allied planes a chance to get into the air before being overrun by Russian Panzers. Slowly, painfully slowly, NATO began building a brand-new air frontier, 100 to 250 miles farther back, in France and the Low Countries...
...enemy armies from the east have overrun the plains of Western Germany and are pouring into Denmark. General Ridgway's armies are holding along the Kiel Canal, but the enemy has already penetrated northern Norway and is threatening to send an amphibious landing force around the North Cape...