Word: various
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That criticism of reading applies pretty much through the section. Gov. 135, the Party Government course--not being given this year or next--has been handled by various people pretty well, but the reading is the same old stuff you got in Government 1. Lambie's municipal government course features dull, solid lectures, as do Hanford's offerings...
Robert Kiphuth, Yale's varsity coach, made a grand appearance after that. Talking about the various strokes, Kiphuth called Joe Verdeur, Allan Stack, and Ray Reid from the bench. Like trained seals they stood beside the pool. When Kiphuth mentioned the breastroke. Verdeur slithered into the water and chopped it into foam while empathetic little girls on the sidelines ogled. Then Stack plunged in at the mention of the backstroke. Then Reid swam 100-yards freestyle. After a practice 150-yard medley relay, Kiphuth lined them up for a 300-yard relay. He turned from the microphone and called...
Oleomargarine is an unobtrusive substance which some people like to spread on bread. This is hard to believe, for during the last few months various people have soberly called margarine everything from "sneaky" to a "violation...
Among the most interesting of the German correspondents is a 21 year-old veteran named Leio Farber, from Augsburg in Bavaria Farber worked up the ranks through various Hitler Youth groups until he was old enough to serve in an anti-aircraft battalion. "We had many fine but dangerous adventures," he says...
...October 1944 he entered a Navy Officer Candidate School, and was assigned to various naval stations and a submarine on the North Atlantic convey lanes. Farber is particularly bitter about the stretch he served in Denmark. "The Danes suffered very little from war," Farber writes. "All that they had to suffer was the loss of political and economic freedom. . . they had a good living and never any starvation, not like in Germany after the occupation by allied troops." Farber says Germany needs its economic freedom, and suggests the U. S. develop his country as a market for surplus goods...