Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enrollment which will smash all existing records is expected when the midyear session begins in February. Besides a 96 per cent return of students entered for the first half-year there will be an especially large new crop. Lombard said that more than 90 per cent of the men enlisted for the first time will return again next year for further graduate study...
...people of Andalusia, in Southern Spain, who voted Leftist when Spain had elections, have usually been cool toward the Italian "volunteers" brought in by tens of thousands to help Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain's civil war. Last week, as some 12,000 Italian infantrymen prepared to return to Italy in a "token" withdrawal of Italian troops, controlled Rightist newspapers and spokesmen whooped up enthusiasm to show Rightist Spain's official gratitude to Fascist Italy...
...wonders of U.S. higher education. It is hardly a place from which would be expected to come the theory that Gothic palaces do not a university make. Yet last week in Duke Forest, about five minutes' walk from the Gothic campus, 32 Duke Law School students celebrated their return to a simple life. Like Abraham Lincoln, they began to study law in log cabins...
...court the head of Cook County's Psychopathic Hospital and his assistant both testified that Snyder was insane. Taking the case into his own hands, Snyder explained his plan (to sue 28 States for infringement of a system he had invented for registering automobiles), declared it would return $20 for each $10 invested, asked for backers. After two hours of deliberation the jury found Cecil Snyder sane. Said Snyder, with a knowing smile: "It was just a conspiracy to get control...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) opens its ninth radio season with Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz Overture, Jean Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela, The Return of Lemmin-käinen, Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky's suite from The Fire Bird, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Adagio and Fugue for Strings, Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting...