Word: classes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overcoats of a cheap, part-wool mixture and uniforms of quilted cotton. . . . None of the men we saw had high boots, but they had ordinary shoes-and several of them, as a result, had feet so frozen they could hardly walk. . . . All said they were reservists, mostly of the class of 1925, and had been called up only three months ago. Most of these men were between 37 and 40. . . . The Finnish colonel said: 'Such infantry we have never seen. . . . They are cannon fodder, but no soldiers...
...Heel Editor is not quite the complete Southern landscape its author, in his preface, intends; it is a strictly middle-class picture, gets the rest by implication only. But within these limits it is an extraordinary and valuable record; above all, a readable one. With no pretension to literary talent, it contains almost as fine U. S. writing as Twain, Lardner, The Congressional Record. With no "science" at all, it is a document comparable to the two Middletowns...
...toughest fights of the afternoon were staged between Pete Illman and his Tufts opponent, Lewis Loring, in the 155 pound class, and between Don Lowry and Ralph Sherry of Tufts in the 175 pound class...
Captain Bill Daughaday in the 165 pound class lived up to his reputation for a fast attacking and hard pressing type of wrestling. His display of ability immediately drove his opponent into a dead defense which saved him from being pinned. Ted Schoenberg characteristically tied up his opponent in four minutes, at 128, while Sophomore Ray Stone showed a steady, smooth variety of wrestling at 135, winning by a decision...
...unlimited class, Tudor Gardiner failed to show his best wrestling form and was pinned by Mathew Cummings of Tufts. Cummings' consistently good form allowed him to take advantage of Gardnier's slip...