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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottles were evidently bricked up in the huge fire-place when the College kitchen was moved to the basement of University Hall in 1814. For many years prior to the change, Harvard Hall was the largest eating place in the Massachusetts colony, and the General Court used to hold its dinners there...
...various graduate departments were evaluated on two bases: "the number of doctorates conferred in the last five years" (i.e., prior to 1933) and "a list of the graduate faculty in each field." But since the Harvard Department of Sociology was not established until 1931, and since a doctorate ordinarily presupposes at least three years of graduate study, it is manifest that there was no possibility of many doctorates being conferred by this Department during the period 1929-33. Moreover, arrangements for graduate study in sociology were not completed until one year prior to the Committee investigation...
...decisive bout of the match was in the 175-pound class, in which Gordon Robertson faced Joe Wells of the Cadets. Prior to this battle the score had been 3 all. Robertson, fighting in a class above his weight, traded punches vigorously with the Army man in a bout which contained more action than any other on the program...
...first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik Bukharin. Promptly Editor Bukharin abjectly crawled, withdrew editorially everything he had said, apologized. Even so, Bukharin was left not quite sure whether it had been Stalin who took umbrage at "Oblomov...
...year, is fox food, mostly horse meat, oatmeal, eggs, fruits, vegetables, all served in sterilized bowls. Biggest risk is high fox mortality. In one year nearly half the Fromm foxes died of encephalitis, but now the Fromms have their sick list down to about 5%. Foxes are killed, prior to skinning, by injecting into their nostrils a quarter-ounce of carbon tetrachloride...