Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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From the 16,500,000 registrants, the Army expects to get about 5,000,000 Class 1 prospects. But not all of these will go into the Army. Those finally selected must first pass a physical examination...
Virgil Hancher was a dark-horse candidate, but no stranger to lowans. Born on an Iowa farm, he got his A.B. and law degree at the State University, where he was a high scholarship man and president of his class, two years ago was president of the Iowa Alumni Association. He also went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, got an M.A. there. No educator, he gave up a better-paid law practice to take the $12,-ooo presidency, was chosen to give Iowa an efficient business administration...
...Again, variety shows were the audiences' favorite class. Second place went to classical music, third to aerial dramas. Close behind were serials, which make up 84.9% of daytime programs. Also in the van on the C. A. B. books were the audience-participation shows, with Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge and Pot o' Gold listed among the first...
...Class of 1944 may have been chiseled out of the honor of being Harvard's three hundredth class...
...despite these few standout names '44 appeared as it struggled through the throes of screaming hawkers and the handcramps of a thousand signatures like every other class that has entered Harvard with ten people from a high school on Main Street to match every celebrity...