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...glassblower, weavers, seamstresses, mechanics, lawyers, farmers, fishermen-had similar tales to tell. An Estonian farmer told how his 76-acre farm had been seized when the Russians decided he was a kulak. A girl remembered the sight of three boys, their eyes pierced, their fingers cracked, their hair torn out for resisting Russian conscription...
Empty beds will be dismantled, he declared, and the new torn paper placed under the cots to protect the basketball floor, will be removed. In addition, trunks, now stored in the basements of several Yard dormitories, will be hauled to the student's new entry when he gets orders to move...
Over the weekend I cleaned out my desk, and I found three things that reminded me of three other things. These were the three I found a brasaring, a page about Herodetus torn out from a Colleges Outline Sevics, and a bluebook containing a German hour exam with D written on the outside and I ask you, wasn't that Chipper Gannon something to see moving down the field? Wasn't that something pretty...
...what do you suppose the expunging process is? I have a theory. Late one night last spring, returning from Radcliffe, I saw a group of people bending over a bonfire in the Cambridge graveyard. They were throwing torn I.B.M. cards into the fire, and making weird sounds, and dancing a strange dance. Suddenly the wind fanned the flames, and the eerie light shone up into their faces. I recognized several deans and at least one House Secretary. I couldn't figure it out at the time, but looking back, I feel sure they were expunging some poor chap's name...
Sensitive Plant. In Kalispell, Mont., Mrs. Delia M. McKinley, suing for divorce, complained that Mr. McKinley had 1) pulled up all her lilac bushes, 2) torn up her pansy bed, 3) staked a calf in her strawberry patch, 4) mowed the lawn "just to annoy...