Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Posse. Instantly an impregnable wall of interrogation, prying eyes and blue steel was thrown around New Jersey's borders as city police and State troopers of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania began stopping cars at all bridgeheads, ferries, and at the mouth of the sub-Hudson Holland Tunnel. By morning a gigantic posse of police, troopers, U. S. Department of Justice operatives, Coast Guardsmen, American Legionaries, Quiet Birdmen, civilians was combing an area from Boston to Baltimore. There had never been such an intensive search party since Booth shot Lincoln...
...Lindbergh kidnapping case has brought out nothing else it has at least focused attention on two symptons of modern American life: the growing tyranny of the press and increased sub-servience to gangsterism. Both the amount and nature of the publicity given to this kidnapping story would have seemed unbelievable five years ago. And who thought that the man whom America set up as its post-war idol would be forced to acknowledge that under-world characters rather than the regular police force could best help him in his predicament...
...fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work of the incubus of men of sub-normal intelligence. The changes will make the degree of Ph.D. in Sociology mean intelligence rather than mere encyclopaedic knowledge and will enable the department to test much better that intelligence...
Under the general direction of Miss E. M. Smaill, the Harvard Dramatic Club players have been casted as follows: Cort, a sub-lieutenant; Meyer, Napoleon; and Sedgwick, Guiseppe. In providing the Wellesley course with members of Harvard's stage forces, the Harvard Dramatic Club held trials for those interested, and the resulting names were selected for the parts as indicated...
...defensive Blacks, surmising that the attack's spearhead would aim at Honolulu's Pearl Harbor naval base, sent skeleton columns of soldiers, sailors and marines to patrol the coast of Oahu and guard against a surprise landing. Actually mobilized to defend Hawaii were 20,000 men, 17 sub marines, four light mine layers, two mine sweepers and 45 aircraft under Major General Briant Harris Wells, commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department...