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Harvard's hockey team returned from a three-day sojourn at Lake Placid this vacation with a record of two defeats and one victory, as Princeton, last year's Quadrangular League Champions, took the so-called "social series" from the Crimson...
...various remarks Deputy Führer Hess has let fall from time to time during his sojourn in our midst," the Prime Minister told Parliament, "nothing has been more clear than that Hitler relied upon a starvation attack even more than upon invasion to bring us to our knees. ... So far as 1941 is concerned, these hopes at least have been dashed to the ground. . . ." There were figures, good solid figures, to substantiate this contention. Apparently the grim months when losses went so high that the Admiralty was frightened into silence-and when starvation seemed a real fear-were over...
...Allies with his shilly-shallying over a clause in the peace terms which called for delivery of all German nationals in his realm. One day last week the British expected to start 225 Nazis rolling from Teheran for internment in India; the Russians had earmarked 50 for Soviet sojourn. After 24 hours of diddle-dumpling run-around from the German Legation, the British received 72 prisoners, the Russians eight. The Allies threatened to get good & tough (i.e., to occupy Teheran) unless consignments speeded up immediately. Next day the Iranian Government ordered the removal of 400 more male Nazis from...
...Manhattan last week a tall, lean, 67-year-old Scotsman named R(obert) McCulloch Dick called at the National City Bank, picked up a big bundle of newspapers, hurried to his hotel to comb them word by word. After a sojourn in London he was catching up on five months' back reading of his own paper, the weekly Philippines Free Press. Presently, reading one of his dispatches from London, he was engulfed by gloom because his paper had gone to pot-he had found a typographical error...
...movies." So wrote Critic Edmund Wilson in 1932 after a sneak preview of part of the 150,000 feet of film (feature length: around 8,000 ft.) which talkative, fuzzy-headed Director Sergei Michailovich Eisenstein, the Soviet Union's gift to cinema, had shot during a 14-month sojourn in Mexico...