Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120 if he were an athletic director...
There are various projected methods of study. The committee may follow a class through its whole career at Harvard, it may consult alumni, it will certainly be in close contact with faculty members...
...second Council self-help group, formed this fall under Charles R. Brynteson '50, is designed to study the structure of the present constitution it self. It will consider the mechanical workings of the Council and suggest solutions for the various small problems which have cropped up in the first years of operation. The members of this committee, mostly Councilmen, will be the technicians; the idea men will work for Rauschenbush...
...must take steps to integrate its separate economies (TIME, Nov. 7). Barely had Hoffman returned to the U.S., when Secretary of State Dean Acheson took off for Paris. For two days this week he would confer with Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman on various problems of Western policy, including dismantling of German industries. But Washington let it be known that the matter of Western European unity was uppermost in the Secretary's mind...
Peter's apprenticeship was interrupted by his induction into the German Army in the first World War. Sent to the Eastern front, he was captured by the Russians and spent three years in various prison camps. At one time, he was in a road gang building a railroad in the Caucasus. "It was very hard work," Peter reminisces, "and I wondered why I should work there if I could never ride on that train. I noticed the guard wasn't looking, so I just moved a little in the woods. Then a little more. It took them three months...