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...time the Rebel advance contingents had reached the border posts last week more than 100,000 civilian refugees had made their way into France. The 150,000 defeated Catalonian soldiers swelled the refugee ranks to far more than the backward, rural Pyrenees district of France could handle. Camps had been built for the internment of the Loyalist fighting forces but these makeshift shelters were able to hold only 100,000. The rest of the soldiers and most of the civilians were forced to camp in the open...
According to the sculptors they received their inspiration from similar pieces of art how being constructed by a group of artists up in a backward town in New Hampshire known as Hanover. "We thought that John Harvard ought to have some female company on these lonely nights even if she is a bit cold," the Crimson artists explained...
...Skis with herringbone grooves on their bottoms to prevent sliding backward...
...cinema industry was occupied with an erratic progression from its beginning in nickelodeons to its last phenomenon, screwball comedies. In 1938 the industry stopped going forward, began going backward. The retrogression took three forms: 1) a series of revivals of old pictures, from The Sheik to Dracula; 2) a series of remakes, from If I Were King to The Adventures of Robin Hood; 3) a series of disguised remakes and delayed sequels like Going Places, The Chaser, Tarzan's Revenge...
...extra-curricular activities, which in their way are as essential to college life as the curriculum. It is usually the C man who desires a broad education, but it is doubtful whether he would sacrifice concentration and tutorial-regardless of how little time he gives them-for a backward system based merely on course credits. No matter how intellectually incurious is a student, he prefers personal to mob instruction in theory, though he may detest it in fact. For a degree lecturing is easier than tutorial, yet for an ideal some individual consideration is superior to none. Thus...