Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dramatic Club will present its second play reading of the fall term this afternoon at 2 p.m. when a cast of four reads Shaw's "Man of Destiny" in the Fogg Large Lecture Room...
...graduate of Kent School in Connecticut, a Classics major, and a veteran of the Field Artillery, Beatty was a Group I student last term. He had been depressed for the last several months, according to doctors who spoke to him yesterday
...school year moved into full swing, Hungarian students of all ages were struggling with the outlandish Cyrillic alphabet, the baffling prodigies of Russian grammar. Last term, when language courses were still optional, 53% of them chose German, 30% English, 29% French, and only 3% Russian. Now, with the study of Russian compulsory in all grades of primary and secondary schools, pupils are required to spend more time learning "the language of socialism" than any other subject except Hungarian language and literature...
Chicago Hoodlum Roger Touhy, serving a 99-year term for the 1933 kidnaping of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, won a $15,000 settlement in his $500,000 libel suit against 20th Century-Fox for its movie, Roger Touhy, Gangster. Roger charged that the film had maligned him grossly. He planned to use the $15,000 in his "fight for freedom," i.e., to beat the kidnaping rap, plus a concurrent 199-year sentence for his role in a 1942 jailbreak...
From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...