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Inside the city, home-defense industries sprang up rapidly. Factories continued to grind out armaments. Firing positions and trenches were dug. Like so many commuters, men trudged to the defense lines each morning, their women accompanying them to the suburban parks. So close were the front lines that soldiers on leave walked or hitchhiked home...
...third quarter the Bellboys sprang into action, and on a kick, safety man Dick Sorlien grabbed the ball off on his own 45 yard stripe and toted the ball 55 yards to ring up the winning points. Felmeth's pass to Sorlein added the extra point, and the score stood...
After lying practically dormant for almost a week because of bad weather, the University tennis tournament suddenly sprang to life over the past weekend with almost all matches played up to the quarter final round...
When Minister Bevin announced last month that the Group's lay evangelists would not be exempted from military service, there was a great hubbub. To Laborite Bevin's defense sprang Crusader-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, Oxford University's Member in Parliament. To Oxonian Herbert the Oxford Group is a bee in the bustle. It riles him to think that Frank Buchman and his brash, eupeptic fishers among the up-&-outs* have the nerve to link themselves implicitly with the great Oxford Movements led by John Wesley and Cardinal Newman...
Only real universities in the U.S. then were tiny Johns Hopkins and Clark; Harvard was still a college without university research. The University of Chicago sprang fullgrown from Harper's head: the day it opened it had 594 students, a graduate school, Gothic buildings, a faculty of 120 eminent scholars, for which Harper had shamelessly raided eight colleges of their presidents and Clark of most of its professors. To get his men, Harper doubled professors' salaries, paying the unheard-of rate of $7,000 a year. John D.'s first gift of $1,600,000 grew...