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...second period to take the lead under the inspirational drive of Bob Dougherty who tallied seven field goals and one foul for a total of 15 points during the game. Little Whitie Mischo, who caused so much trouble in the last encounter with the Quaker team, again was a thorn in the Feslermen's side hitting the hoop with 11 markets...
...cheaper symbolism of a new piece called A Modern-Totalitarian Hero, or "The glory of living dangerously," in which Miss Enters appeared in a heavily bemedaled uniform and gas mask, went into mock ecstasies over a rose, then tore its petals off in rage at being pricked by a thorn...
Rivalry for funds and prestige between the University and Oregon State Agricultural College, both units of the State's System of Higher Education, is the thorn that makes the president's seat uncomfortable at University of Oregon. Two years ago Dr. Frederick Maurice Hunter was brought from Denver as Oregon's Chancellor of Higher Education to quiet a raging political dogfight. But the University still feels itself the underdog. It lacks a full-fledged science department and other requisites of a self-respecting university...
Down the street at the same time occurred a meeting of the Socialist U.G.T. labor unions, backers of disgruntled ex-Premier Largo Caballero, chief thorn in the Negrin Government's side. Largo Caballero controls but seven of U.G.T.'s original 42 assorted unions, has forced the expulsion of 29 others. Those 29 held a meeting of their own last week, and insisting that they were the real majority of U.G.T., voted confidence in the Negrin Government's "win the war first" program...
...about their profession, no one was more on teachers' minds than the President of the U. S. He had just signed a new NEA charter which democratized the board of directors by dropping from it the Association's 22 past presidents, mostly school superintendents and long a thorn to rebellious classroom teachers. And he had sent Chairman Floyd W. Reeves of his Advisory Committee on Education to tell the NEA just how good a friend of Education Franklin D. Roosevelt...