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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve masked architects hissed their voodoo dance, word came that Ghost Hater Chalie Apted of the Yard Police was on his way to break up the Performance. A few reached for their bursar's cards, as others decided that discretion is the better part of valor,' as one of them trenchantly phrased...
...view of the heavy, pro-graduate student handicap resulting from Widener's tremendous size, there are certain temporary remedies which may be applied to more nearly balance the scales. The most desirable attribute of a service institution is accessibility--a function, in part, of service hours. And for several years, now, students have strongly desired an extension of library hours...
Tennessee's prowess, for the most part, is attributed to modest, Texas-born Major Robert Reese Neyland (pronounced knee-land), football coach since 1926. Famed 25 years ago as one of the greatest all-round athletes ever turned out at West Point, The Major (as he is known to his players) is at long last being recognized as one of the great football coaches of the U. S. In twelve years (one year he was unable to coach because of Army duty in the Canal Zone)* he has turned out six undefeated teams, and his record of 102 victories...
...least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...
...Starlings also have a nondescript call of their own. "The greater part of it," says Ornithologist Aretas A. Saunders, "is sibilant, fricative [sounds of zh, sh, th], or harsh and rattling, but here and there the bird intersperses loud, clear, slurred whistles, most of them slurred downward. . . . The young, when gathering in their first flocks in June and committing depredations in cherry trees, make a loud grating or hissing noise...