Word: seconded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that there was a slight movement of the foundations of the second largest of the buildings in the House system was disclosed four years age when steady pressure caused a break in a number of water mains under the basement...
...Light That Failed (Paramount). Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Dudley Digges struggle with Kiplingesque stoicism through the somewhat dated heroics and stout fella philosophy of Rudyard Kipling's first novel, made into a picture for the second time. Ida Lupino (re-emerging after a long hibernation) throws a rousing fit of hysterics as the hoydenish model who defaces Ronald Colman's pictorial masterpiece just after he goes blind. Unfortunately for the tragic effect, cinemaudiences can see for themselves that the blind artist's masterpiece is a daub...
...trembling, as though something tormented, burning, and unapproachable had become installed as a natural feature of the landscape." The camera narrows to young Jerphanion, who first appeared in the first vol ume as a sensitive, acute, idealistic student arriving in Paris to attend the Normal School. Jerphanion, as a second lieu tenant, returns from leave in Paris. He renews his acquaintance with the trans forming fact of trench fear. He and his sardonic pal Fabre get relief in a joke, adapted from an article by Foch. Jerphanion asks Fabre what he thinks will happen that winter. Fabre clenches his fist...
...Battle is a great showpiece of Remains' descriptive powers, but this second part of the book is, no more than the first, merely another work of realism intended to horrify readers with the horror of war. The pitiful French advance positions pulverized over a sector miles wide, miles deep by a bombardment of unheard of intensity; the silence finally falling "like a sheet laid upon the face of a dead man," the grey German assault lines straggling like smoke wisps from their trenches, slowly growing into trudging multitudes: from all this Remains turns to French headquarters, where a stiff...
Charley Lutz was the leading Harvard scorer but totaled only nine points; Bud Finegan eaged six gift tosses to be the second Crimson scorer with Bill Webber who picked up two baskets and two free throws. Ed Buckley played most of the last period at guard and did his best job of the season. Center Ed Rothschild collected five points during a long stay in the fray...