Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard B. Wolf '41 and John Tully '42 will represent Harvard in a debate with Mount Holyoke Saturday on the subject: "Resolved, That the United States should give more than 50 per cent of its war supplies to Britain." Harvard will support the negative side of the argument...
...ancient Greek doctor named Paul of Aegina treated patients for arthritis by stewing them in wolf broth. He made the broth by boiling whole wolves in oil. Today the standard treatment for arthritis still includes heat. Instead of hot wolf oil, doctors use electric pads and artificial fever machines. About the cause & cure of most arthritis they know little more than did Paul of Aegina...
When Ernest Thompson Seton was a wee bairn in the North of England, his sympathies were not with Little Red Ridinghood but with the wolf. "I felt that his case was not properly presented; he acted strictly within the law, and on each occasion he got a very raw deal." When he was 31, his painting of a wolf crunching a human skull was tossed out of the Grand Salon in Paris with cries of "Horrible! In sympathy with the beast ! " Following year, in New Mexico, he resolved to stop poisoning cattle-slaying wolves. "What right. I asked...
Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., Eliot, Government; Jere J. Nelson, Winthrop, Chemistry; Albert J. Novak, Leverett, Physics; Gilbert N. Plass, Winthrop, Physics; G. Robert Stauge, Lowell, History and Literature; M. Woodrew P. Strandberg, Dunster, Engineering Sciences; Dwight D. Taylor, Lowell, English; Emmanuel G. Weiss, Dunster, Government; and Richard B. Wolf, Dunster, Economics...
...Britain would pick them up. None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed. If a German pocket battleship-the Admiral S cheer or the Lutzow-was indeed among them, the havoc could only be like that of a wolf in a hen roost. For the raider, armored against the merchantmen's light weapons, would have 11-inch guns, aircraft, torpedo tubes and surpassing speed of 26 knots. Unless they could scatter and escape in bad weather or darkness, the entire convoy could be blasted in their huddle...