Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...always a pardonable reluctance to agree with a publisher's blurb; but it is impossible to deny the truth of the dust jacket's statement that the New Yorker publishes the best prose fiction in America and that a splendid sampling of that fiction has been brought together to make this book. A warning, at this point: the New Yorker's prose style, a unique melancholy compounded out of many samples over a period of not quite sixteen years, is not very much in evidence in this collection. The witty, nostalgic, acid manner of the "Talk of the Town" hovers...
...letter sent to N.R.O.T.C. students states that "men who have other plans for the early summer may have to make some sacrifice of personal plans or financial gain in the interest of the national defense and of their own efficiency...
...addition to the instruction given Freshmen and Sophomores about the summer cruise, the letter warned that "unless there is a great improvement in world-wide conditions, each Naval R.O.T.C. student should make plans now for active duty afloat after graduation...
...Freshman game, Coach Skikp Stanley's Yardlings will be out to make up for last week's loss to Tufts Junior Varsity. George Dillon and Jack Torgan will start at the forwards, George Burditt at center, and Don Lutze and Dick Elken at the guards. This game will be the first of the season for the Husky Freshmen. HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Simpson, f. f, Azzone Romano, f. f., Pajonas Rothschild, c. c., Lawler Finegan, g. g., Sullivan Buckley, g. g., Maron
...declaration of war is only a question of strategy" is the premise upon which the Committee bases its demand for immediate action. "A German victory over Britain in the near future," the petition argues, "would make the position of the United States an intolerable...