Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University a pleasant introduction to Harvard life. In the two years of its existence the Council has striven to offer those men opportunities for a social intercourse which they might otherwise find difficult to get in their new environment. In this capacity it has done much to break down the feeling of isolation and strangeness with which the foreign student is confronted...
...article in today's CRIMSON on the Harvard Princeton football break four years ago is significant of the attitude of most Princeton students in the graduate schools toward the affair. It is significant also of the attitude of undergraduates in both colleges who were not direct parties to the breach...
...expansion at over $600,000,000. United Gas Improvement Co. placed its expansion at $41,000,000, $6,500,000 more than this year. Total utility construction during 1930 was estimated at about $850,000,000. Thus will utility companies, blamed as the most inflated of all before the break, be almost as big benefactors as the railways...
...spark of stage wit, the faculty of knowing when and how to break away from the regular routine speech with an immediate answer for every question, is that which distinguishes a Houdini, a Thurston, from the magician Blackstone, the feature of this week's Keith-Albee bill. Mr. Blackstone exhibits a complete performance of the accepted sleight-of-hand tricks with the ease of Keller, but he lacks the vital touch of spontaneity...
...become weighted with seeming importance through their long continuance, but they should not be allowed to interfere with real progress. It would be absolutely incompatible with the purpose and spirit of the House Plan to expect Seniors who had previously spent two years in one of the Houses to break the associations formed during this time and herd together in the Yard during their last year...