Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...jeered in shrill-voiced mockery at the Republican candidate. Now they were merged in a solid mass of organized enthusiasm that reached from Pittsburgh's East Liberty Station, up through the hills of Swissvale and Rankin, that poured out of the grimy factories and working-class homes to roar its sustained, unvaried, tumultuous welcome...
Invariably his pugnacity and his conviction led him into trouble, whether it was in trying to paint his class numerals on an Elwood gastank or in delivering a valedictory address on the theme that the faculty was incompetent to teach law. In one case he got a broken arm; in the other his degree was withheld 24 hours...
...Indies. This would move the scene of action some distance from Japanese as well as from U. S. bases. Such an attack would give the U. S. Britain and The Netherlands as allies, and provide the U. S. with the use of other bases-particularly the first-class British base at Singapore, secondarily the Dutch bases at Surabaya and Amboina, and the Australian base at Port Darwin...
Harvard wasn't so much different a century ago in judge from the diary of Jacob Rhuff Mott of the Class of 1832, who "slept over prayers, disliked the food, and rejoiced unduly when his professors "missed" lectures...
...evenings, he boasts of "perpetrating his lesson in Electricity" but to balance these conscientious evenings, he tells of several occasions when he got through Latin class only by a "squirt," which was nineteenth century jargon for a good guess in an unprepared recitation...