Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large dining hall, in its common rooms, its libraries, and its game rooms, there will take place as the year gets under way, the gradual integration of hundreds of new Harvard men from many parts of the world with varied back-grounds and interests into another class unit. This is because it is in the Union rather than in the classrooms or on the athletic field that the men of 1938, those living at home as well as those who live in the Yard, will mingle in greatest numbers, meeting not only each other, but establishing valuable and interesting contact...
Last February Jose Clemente Orozco, one-armed peer of Diego Rivera, signed and dated the last of his 15 great frescoes on the walls of Dartmouth's new Baker Library (TIME, Feb. 26). Then Dartmouth settled down to contemplate in awe or anger the largest fresco unit in the U.S. Keynote of Orozco's Epic of American Civilization was Mexican mythology and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, "the white Messiah of peace and understanding." To depict academic tradition in the U. S., without Quetzalcoatl, Orozco did Gods of the Modern World?robed skeletons watching an unclothed skeleton give birth...
...that French engineers recently managed to measure No. 534 in famed John Brown's shipyard on the Clyde. Their report: No. 534 is 1,018 ft. long, or 9 ft. shorter than the Normandie which Paris papers called last week "not only the largest ship but the largest moving unit in the world...
...school in Dresden. In his travels about Europe he improved his French, picked up Flemish. He graduated from Cambridge where "scholastically I was a brilliant success," went in for engineering (Colorado School of Mines, London School of Mines). When the War came he joined an ambulance unit, was transferred to the artillery where he rose to a captaincy. When in 1916 British espionage was practically wiped out by the efficient German counter-espionage service which effected the capture of Edith Cavell, the youthful artillery captain with a knowledge of all the needful languages became the man of the hour...
...that this was the ancient bank whose existence they had suspected since finding elsewhere in the ruins a papyrus recording what seemed to be bank transactions. All the coins were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit of his own. Thus, if the four-celled structure was not a bank, it was the hiding-place of some Third Century miser, whose hoard had been rendered worthless by the imperial edict...