Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Second, Mr. Conant may intend to expand the ranks of the associate professors by the appropriate number sometime in the future. However, he would fill these new positions by new men coming up from below--men who are as yet lost in the maze of instructorships or who have not yet arrived at Harvard--instead of by choosing from among the ten assistant professors. Then in effect he is saying that he expects to find better men for these jobs in the future than he can find at present among...
...there is one quality in which Williams has a surplus it is that very experience which Harvard lacks. The Purple forward line is playing as a unit for the second straight year and is likely to cause trouble in the Crimson backfield, weakest link in the team...
...first of the two possibilities for an immediate peace, according to Professor Elliott, would be an overwhelming victory for Hitler in an air vs. navy battle. The second occasion would present itself if, upon repeal of the arms embargo act, Italy were to line up with the Allies, and Russia and Japan were to remain inactive in the event of a pitched battle...
...second feature is built around the most threadbare of trite plots, the Cinderella story, but it at times reaches a brilliance of satirical comedy that is beyond most second features. Based on life at a Princeton week-end (Princeton is called Kingsford), the picture gives a fair conception of a gay time in those ivy-covered walls and takes high society for a bitter ride. Outside of that it also introduces an excellent portrayal by Lana Turner of an all too, too naive taxi-dance girl...
Dartmouth too had its moments of panic, when the half ended with the score 7-6 over Hampden-Sydney. Although the second half revealed a different story in the form of four touchdowns, the Big Green did not show conclusive proof that it'll dominate Ivy league Circles this fall.... And who ever heard of the Hampden-Sydney football team...