Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilson pointed out that members of the new Sphinx society called him up several weeks ago to determine the question of names. At that time he told them they could not call themselves the Sphinx. The was the last Wilson heard of the matter until last week when the Student Council took its first vote on the Sphinx's charter...
This is the sixty-fourth season of the Boston Pops, and perhaps that is why the tables are arranged for parties of five. Even 64 years ago it must have been foolish to go to the Pops without a girl, but then you needed a chair for the chaperone. I object to this archaic tradition, because on Monday, which was Harvard Night, a party of six in front of me spent the first part of the program modernizing the system. They were trying to get a chair which was strapped to an adjoining table into an appropriate relationship with their...
...could have been little more than a week ago--two weeks at the most--when the Vagabond found himself leaning back in a chair, tie loosened, sleeves rolled up, holding a book. He had the book in his lap, but reading he was not. He was Contemplating. Staring into and beyond the passers-by, feeling the fluorescent lighting of Lamont beat down on the back of his neck, the Vagabond merged himself slowly with his surroundings. The Kentucky Derby, the Term Bill, the grey flannels that needed pressing--all worldly items left his mind as he felt himself received into...
...November the CRIMSON said editorially, "the single alternative to that program [condition government advocated by General Marshall two years ago] is American military support of the Civil War. Such support cannot save the fascistic Kuomintang and will only further catrange the liberals whose friendship is essential to the reconstruction of China along Western lines...
...CRIMSON still believes that the error in U.S. policy toward China was made two years ago in choosing between two evils. The CRIMSON hopes that the lesson of China will bring U.S. support of such non-Communists as the Republic of Indonesia...