Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman meet, a competition between the Yard dormitories, is the first of its kind at Harvard in recent years. Fifteen events will be featured, including an 80-yd. dash, 160 yd. dash, 330-yard run, 660-yard run, three-quarters of a mile, a mile and a half run, 80-yard hurdles, and 120-yard lows. Field events will include the high jump, broad jump, 12-pound shot, 30-pound weight. pole vault, javelin, and discus. A three-man dash relay team is also planned for each dormitory. Blue books are located in the Union, Dudley Hall...
...distributed to undernourished Americans, Secretary Wallace has produced a plan in which farmers are no longer the main beneficiaries. Timed to forestall the mounting criticism of the AAA, the program presents a poser for die-hard critics, for it includes the good points of every sound program suggested in recent years...
...Reader Howard's surmise (about the salutations) is correct. A recent letter, for instance, began "Dear Buttercup...
...radiomen, this looked like complete success for General Gardner's wonderful net. Publicity was in charge of artillery officers who did not go out of their way to discourage this impression, feeling with the Army at large that the Air Corps has got altogether too many bouquets in recent years. Resentful airmen, aware that they were ordered to fly predetermined courses under conditions which would not obtain in war time, boiled out of their ships with profane explanations. Finally bald, patient General Gardner had to caution newsmen: "Nobody is trying to win a war here...
...Britain's antiaircraft and coastal defenses, the balloon barrages (rows of sausage-shaped gas bags, suspending thin, steel cables, which will be anchored to truck-winches and floated above the industrial centres in wartime) and emergency hospital work. In a decision, long expected and accelerated by the recent war scare, the War Secretary announced that the Terriers from now on will be patterned after the Regular Army. They will retain their antiaircraft and other duties, but four divisions will be mechanized, equipped with more warlike teeth: light and heavy machine guns, anti-tank guns and tanks...