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Lorries carried the assault tanks to their scene of action, unloading and readying them for action in five minutes. Their function, following the breakthrough, was to fan out and attack troops in trenches, nests, pillboxes. Some were said to spew flames 70 yards into blockhouse ventilators and machine-gun nests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Tanks in Battle | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Critical of the examination system which permits students to "stuff themselves with the necessary information, spew it forth on a blue book the following morning, and promptly forget it," the lead article in the Student Union publication said that the University would have to make radical changes in the method of teaching and examining before the tutoring schools could be eliminated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESSIVE REFUSES TO DECLINE TUTORING ADS | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

...dingy, impertinent, little trains chug in every few minutes and, before they have even skated to a halt, begin to spew forth a few score commuters who flash past him on staccato high heels or solemn, rubber-heeled oxfords. Cogs in the Hub's vast commercial machine, muses the Vagabond, as he lolls against a post. Each one intent only on getting to his or her job on time so that, when the man at the top of the heap pushes the button, all the units can awake into smooth action simultaneously. Vag watches them as he fumbles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard," asserted Bruce U. Totalizer, tip sheet operator and handicapper in the Department of Geography, to his Radcliffe class yesterday. "It begins in a night lunch and ends in a graveyard," he continued, "and there is a big hole in the middle, out of which proletariat spew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE TOLD HARVARD IS UNIVERSITY NEAR TO BOSTON | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...resents the president, who fears and resents the trustees. Most pedagogs work off their passions in private talk, present smiling exteriors to superiors. But occasionally one stiffens his spine, talks back or speaks out in defiance of tradition, ruling beliefs, sacred cows. Then the volcano is apt to erupt, spew him out. Ready for just such an emergency stands A. A. U. P. with its Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A. A. U. P. | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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