Word: severely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday, March 5th, 7 p.m.: Tryouts for Harvard Glee Club, Sever...
William Rose Benet, the distinguished American poet and author, will read from his poems and comment on them tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Sever 11. Benet graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1907, receiving an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale University...
...communiqués sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...
...commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, read eight of the most well-known poems by the English author in Sever 11, Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. All of the poems written by this well-liked British Jesuit were published after his death, late in the nineteenth century...
Even if the Japanese should push westward only to Kweiyang, 300 miles from Paoching, they would sever the main highways by which the Chinese and their allies had hoped to move war supplies into China from the new Ledo-Burma Road, through Kunming to Chungking. Across the plateau to the highways wove countless secondary roads and paths, along which the Japs had learned to route their advance...