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...trouble lies in the lack of any licensing system for sound trucks. While the Cambridge police are strict about parades they do not consider a 120 decibel juggernaut particularly worthy of supervision. Rather, they deem their verbal permission sufficient control of the trucks, adding only the afterthought that it would be nice to stay away from hospitals, schools and court-rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Captive Audience | 11/12/1953 | See Source »

...undergraduate literary committee of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the College, asking for tickets to the literary exercises in Sanders Theatre. Attached to the letter is a scrap of paper which Wetherbee says was "tucked beneath the flap of the envelope as though it had been an afterthought," the message read--"Have you ever discovered a Transmittindum in your room, a parchment scroll with the names of all the occupants of the room, in an augur hole in the top of one of the doors. My brother occupied 19 Matthews in 1879 and it was there then...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Secret Scroll, Too Big For Hiding-Place, Retired After Sixty-Seven Year History | 11/10/1953 | See Source »

Then Hoover had a cautious afterthought. "I am not passing on the technique of McCarthy's committee," he said, "or other Senate committees. That's the Senators' responsibility. But the investigative committees do a valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Vigorous Individual | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Purcell turned to Physics largely as an afterthought. "I trained as an electrical engineer at Purdue because I didn't know what Physics really was." After getting his B.S., he spent a year in Germany and then returned to Harvard to receive his M.A. in 1935 and Ph.D. three years later...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Edward Purcell | 12/9/1952 | See Source »

...Martin's on their side, and bad when he's not. The author uses an old, but still good, Don Passes trick when in traducing his main figures. He pleasantly deserthes four unrelated groups of people and then weaves them together Los them runs out of tricks. As an afterthought (of any is warranted), the author evidently doesn't believe in transitions between scenes...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Guns Ablaze In Texas | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

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