Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight's rally will be the first with flares this fall, since the fire hazard caused by the rainless spell early this month prohibited the use of torches at the Columbia rally...
...Council has been reluctant to use force in Palestine. The United Nations charter does not allow the use of force in upholding political decisions--in this case, partition--but it does specifically entitle the Security Council to enlist armed troops for maintaining international peace. A police force would presumably draw upon manpower from several nations; up to now, no one in the Council has been able to agree which ones. The Western Powers are wary of letting Russian troops into the Near East; but they are unwilling to employ their own forces and risk straining economic relations with the Arab...
...Holyoke House offices of the department of Romance Languages. For a number of years this department has been plying incoming Freshmen with placement tests, which classify students for the various elementary language courses. It is undoubtedly a fair system; students are sectioned by ability. English A could use a similar method. The single purpose Anticipatory should be scrapped for an English Placement, perhaps something on the lines of the old College Entrance Examination Board Achievement tests. Such an exam would be more difficult to compose and correct, but it would certainly split up the course into sections of comparable ability...
...aspect of the birth control controversy is amazingly inconsistent. We are told that "Birth control is against God's Law," yet the majority of Protestants and Jewish leaders approve of the proper use of contraception, while the Catholic Church approves of he "Rhythm" or "Legitimate Birth Control." The great majority of married couples in Massachusetts, both Catholic and non-Catholic, practice birth control...
...time to turn to these more dangerous areas. A graceful brick overpass in each trouble spot which not pedestrian would use, or a more expensive underpass which would be no more popular, are two possible solutions. Short of portly policemen behind loudspeakers, the most sensible way to reduce the perils seems to be the installation of two sets of traffic lights or officers, one at the junction of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets and another at the corner in front of Lehman Hall. A shift in location of the Lehman Hall taxi stand, or at least a decrease in its size...