Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Highlight of the interview was when Ann divided her audience into three classes: Men, gentlemen, and others. She was quite definite in stating that Harvardians belonged in the "gentlemen" category. People from Yale are "others...
...symposium of "The Relation of the United States to World Affairs" was a highlight of the afternoon program. Held in New Lecture Hall, and broadcast over a national hookup, the meeting featured speeches by a number of faculty members...
Another convention highlight: Aviators' Blackouts. After breathing the thin air of high altitudes for a while, fliers sometimes faint when they gulp oxygen from their tanks or dive swiftly to richer air. In other words, their blackout may not be due to too little oxygen but to a sudden supply of too much. Last week the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacologist Carl Frederic Schmidt, a top-notch U. S. respirationist, explained...
Passing was the highlight of yesterday's workout, as Charley Spreyer, Don McNicol, and Cliff Helman all found the mark time after time. The Harvard aerial game will definitely show a great improvement over last fall...
...debate on conscription served to highlight the main issue in the strategy of defense. That issue is whether the Army and its air arm or the Navy and its adjuncts shall be emphasized. The partisans of conscription say the Army should be stressed now, be reenforced, and eventually have millions of troops at its beck and call; and the conscriptionists have prevailed. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee, the late Smedley Butler, and many of the anti-conscriptionists, bespoke the cause of the naval forces, and they have lost the debate...