Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return whence we had come. This ultimatum was delivered despite the fact that there were at least six other courts open, and no one was waiting for ours. What is the reason for this procedure? Can it be that Harvard University puts the small amount of wear and tear on the courts ahead of the physical well-being of the students? Has someone set up an iron-clad rule which must be followed when the courts are relatively deserted as well as when they are crowded? In any case it does not seem to me that...
...weeks every man is forced to pay half as much. This means that total income for the summer session is at least as large as in the whole past academic year. Searching for a reason is more fruitless than trying to develop good crews at Yale. The wear and tear on equipment caused by calisthenics is absolutely nil, except for boxing gloves, and the instructors are mostly unpaid Mil Sci men. To say that furnishing a locker and towels costs the University three dollars is nothing short of ludicrous. Total income from the charges imposed on undergraduates is easily fourteen...
...bombing of London, amplified to life size. All this was explained to the somewhat shaken rookies, who were then given a round of back-pats for good work. The camp went back to bed. Half an hour later hell broke loose again. This time the gas was real tear gas. Again the boys behaved well, though some ended up with smarting eyes, patches of irritated skin, and rumpled tempers...
...dreary. They were warmed by the half-filial, half-erotic friendship of many young men, notably the young Irish streetcar conductor, Peter Doyle. They were cheered by the startling letters of Mrs. Anne Gilchrist. She had read the Leaves and wrote their author: "Nothing in life or death can tear out of my heart the passionate belief that one day I shall hear that voice say to me, 'My mate. The one I so much want. Bride, wife, indissoluble, eternal.' ... O come, come, my darling, look into these eyes and see the long ardent aspiring soul in them...
This man, Admiral King, is also an airman, as is his chief of operations, Rear Admiral Home. The Navy also undertook to tear down the walls between its many jealous bureaus (Ordnance, Supplies, Medicine, etc.) by putting all procurement under one man, Admiral Robinson. Symptomatically, in the naval building program, aircraft carriers, submarines, cruisers and destroyers have a new prominence. So has speed in all ships...