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Since 1946-47 six things have happened to put Harvard on a virtual par with Princeton. Dartmouth, and Yale in at least its physical capacity to spread its name and admissions data...
With the decline, of that department, the Wireless Club became homeless and slipped into virtual inactivity...
...Reza Khan, a onetime army sergeant who with British help had become Iran's virtual dictator, proclaimed himself Shah. "I am against it. It is contrary to law," Mossadeq shrieked in Parliament, and he was the only prominent man in Iran with the courage...
...Water Jag. The shortest interrogation ran three hours, several lasted a grueling 15. Officially, prisoners slept between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., but Stypulkowski was hauled out of bed 69 nights out of 70. Sleep at any time was a virtual miracle. A lumpy mattress and a single blanket left him aching and cold. By prison rules, hands had to be kept outside the blanket, and a naked light bulb was always trained on his head. Any attempt to tuck in frozen fingers or face away from the light brought a barked reprimand from the guard at the peephole...
...truck rubbish to two Atlantic Avenue piers, load it onto scows, and tow it out to the island. Because no new company wants to invest the large sums necessary for scows and other equipment on the mere chance of getting a contract, the Coleman Company has a virtual monopoly. It has held its job for the last 30 years. In 1947, when the Coleman Company was charging $414,000, the Financial Commission claimed that Boston could do the same job for half as much...