Word: adjournments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference could handle them all in much less time than originally planned. At week's end, some of the delegates were even talking about getting up to New York for the U.N. General Assembly's Palestine session on April 16; the more conservative guessed they would adjourn...
...social gatherings. In the Retummoe Room, the girls may smoke, "if done with discretion." However, Regulation G warns that "Sargent College is definitely opposed to the use of alcoholic beverages." A girl who drinks on the sly may easily be expelled. In the months of June and September, students adjourn to the college camp in Peterborough, New Hampshire, or soccer, hockey, lacrosse, speedball, and other outdoor activities...
...night last week, reams of copy piled up alarmingly in the composing room of Marshall Field's tabloid Chicago Sun. Deadlines came & went, but the battery of Linotypes stood silent. The printers were holding a marathon "chapel meeting," and the union was in no rush to adjourn. When the Sun went to press, nine hours late, it was in makeshift dress: lacking type, it ran pages of photo-engraved typewriting...
...constant stream of visitors makes the editorial office pleasantly chaotic. On Saturdays the staff, and any friends who happen by, adjourn to an Italian restaurant for a long lunch. Says Marion Strobel: "Then we all dangle our feet in Lake Michigan and otherwise behave like poets...
While graduate students adjourn for a special meeting and a luncheon, Dean Mildred P. Sherman, Dean Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, and Susanna J. Ehrentheil '48' president of the student government, will speak to the undergraduates