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...Engineering Sciences should indicate on their study cards courses they wish to take during the fall term and whether they are listed in the catalogue or not. The Engineering Faculty will offer undergraduate courses according to the demand in order to "taper off" the effects of the departmental shift, he said...
During the war, Bandleader Marshall De Camp got sick & tired of losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where...
...remembers the long, sickening period after he was laid off (from a turret lathe), when he pawned his tools, and pounded the pavements, while Susan's work in a bookstore supported them both. He remembers the long stretch before he was drafted when he worked the night shift in a defense plant and he and Susan saw each other only on their way to & from their jobs. And he remembers Susan's constant desire for a child, and his own constant fear of it, so long as they were so desperately hard up and insecure...
...analysis of basic trends in the College may be sought in the division of responsibility. The College can no longer look to its President as the sole voice of authority. With the exigencies of war; more and more responsibility was shifted to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Only lately this shift was made permament when the Dean received the title of Provost...
...With the shift of scene to the invasion coast of England, the camera eye leaves the Globe, to return only at the picture's conclusion. Except for the transposition from "Henry IV" of Hal's brutal rebuke of Falstaff, a rebuke which seen against the background of the magnificence of the young king seems somehow more necessary than was apparent in the earlier chronicle play, Olivier has taken no major liberties with the text. What innovations he does make achieve a startling success...