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Federal immigration authorities ordered out of the country 17 foreign-born students enrolled at the American International College, Springfield, Mass. The students were post-quota entrants to the U. S. Chancellor McGowan attempted to stave off his pupils' deportation by urging that their status as students afforded a refuge from the rigors of quota...
...necessity for rebuilding Japanese cities has tended to impart strength to material prices, and to stave off prospects for lower prices here for another year. In consequence, American builders are now going ahead again, instead of waiting for lower costs. Even the conservative investor is not so inclined to hesitate over present expensive construction, after realizing the prospective Japanese demand for building materials...
Although five substitutes were used in the attempt to stave off defeat, the Andover baseball team broke its winning streak, succumbing to the Freshman nine by the score of 10 to 6 Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field. McGlone, who has played regularly at short this season, was moved into the box, where he held his opponents to five scattered hits...
...Frick, Altman, Johnson, and Huntington has made this country, especially since the war, a storehouse of famous paintings largely brought from abroad. As a result a flair for anything foreign developed and the effect on American art has been widespread. Individually, little can be done by American artists to stave off this influx of foreign-born art beyond all reason. No literary test can be-applied and there are no immigration laws to govern paintings...
...looks much the same. University Hall has not yet assumed its February gravity, and perhaps Holworthy appears a trifle rakish; but these things will adjust themselves in time. The atmosphere is strangely familiar. There is the same haggard-faced individual who informs you that only eight C's will stave off his forced retirement at Mid-Years. The same cheery greeting from the man who has forgotten your name; but, shaking your hand warmly, asks what kind of a summer you have had, and makes a careful note of where you are rooming this year...