Word: classes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army's age limit) his retirement. He was succeeded by Major General William Wain Prior, 63, a tall, slender man with a deep-lined face and penetrating eyes, who is modest, sober, steady, a little bureaucratic, of bourgeois stock. Like his father, one of Denmark's respected class called grosserer (wholesale merchants), General Prior is an economizing man. He hates to think about the way the blockade is ruining Denmark's exports of foodstuffs. Day after General With retired, Denmark's Army (peacetime strength, 11,000) held maneuvers. To save money, it used fireworks to indicate...
...subject of conscription, North and South, Sandburg gives the fruit of original research. Nothing in the narrative, however, stands out with such power for readers in 1939 as the deep tenacity of Lincoln's efforts: first (vainly) to win the South to gradual, compensated emancipation; then to forestall class and sectional savagery, to maintain representative government in the torn border States (sometimes he seems to have done so by an act of will), to build, even as the war went on, a foundation for "a just and lasting peace...
...Register, which is the only directory of the Freshman class until the actual Red Book in June, will be given out at the Union and in the commuter center...
...used forceful methods rather than peaceful ones, the youthful professor said: "Russia is obviously in a hurry about something. She did not want to wait any longer than she possibly could, and in bombing Finland she undoubtedly lost the respect and support of a good many of the working class in the United States and elsewhere...
...there were an ounce of superstition in any one of the men prominently mentioned for the captaincy, the honor of leading a Harvard football team would be shunned. Four Junior lettermen, Bill Brown, Joe Gardella, Gene Lovett, and Don Lowry, are leading candidates from their class. Burgy Ayres, Chub Peabody, and Charley Spreyer are the chief Sophomore nominees...