Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty years ago, in the days of bloomers and tin bath tube, Radcliffe cheered the addition of a permanent brick gymnasium to the cluster of building up Garden Street. Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, wife of the donor of the University's Hemenway gymnasium dedicated the now structure in June...
Barriers were still up in front for Little Hall where maintenance men are repairing gas mains that broke less than a month ago and threatened students at that time...
...gold piece, which has been sliding from its January high of over 28,000 francs (about $88 at the official free rate), dropped to 21,200 francs (or $66), down 2,500 francs in a week. A 2.2 pound gold bar, worth 837,000 francs a few weeks ago, dropped to 635,000. The Bourse was baffled by the reason for the plunge. But it seemed to be caused by rising confidence in France's currency...
...retail prices and increased buying power for the franc. Some financiers thought that the announcement of South Africa's gold shipments might also be a factor in the decline. The franc's value in terms of dollars had also risen sharply in the black market. A month ago, $1 had cost 505 francs. Last week, it cost only 395 francs...
...greaseball" at Harvard and was never invited to join a club. Now Harvard's Alumni Bulletin asks him for literary contributions and the college asks him for money (he has given both), but "those early snubs rankled all my life, up to just a few years ago...