Word: 2nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy. The Circus Maximus of ancient Rome was first a vast, open field, later a tiered U-shaped structure built of wood. So many fires broke out in the stables and contestants' quarters that in the 2nd Century B. C. it was reconstructed of stone from the quarries of Tibur-a light stone that turned a rich ochre with age. In the Middle Ages the Circus was buried by silt from the hills, and sheds and hovels were built on top of it. Now Fascist Italy, recalling the bellicose glories of her antiquity, has decided to lay bare...
...comes December. The boys go home for vacation and again we are put on half time. Two hours a day. Let's pass on to June. Along about the 2nd of June a percentage of the women are laid off and those that are left have to do their own and the other women's work without extra pay. And this is two or three weeks before graduation. Well, when the student brings his guests in his suite for graduation he is ashamed of the looks of it--and I can't blame him. So the maid that is left...
...MOFFETT 2ND...
...third class team, which won the Massachusetts Championship on Mt. Grace two weeks ago, has as leading contenders Harold T. White, Jr. '37, Thomas Motley, 2nd '38, Frederick S. Bigelow '38, William F. Loomis '36, and Henry S. Parker...
...Springfield, Mass, last week the Yale swimming team won its 13 2nd consecutive dual meet, against Springfield College, 61 points to 16. Two nights later the team stretched its string to 133, against College of the City of New York. In New York, Yale swimmers were first in every event, second in four. In the 440-yd. swim, Norris Hoyt of Yale set a pool record...