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Word: airings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the phone was first installed everyone was quite pleased with the professional sounding number, Eliot 4-4600. They agreed it gave an air of distinction to the room. At 8 a.m. on the next morning the phone rang. Someone wanted to order shirts. More callers that day wanted to buy rugs, bath mats, and diamond bracelets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errant Phone Calls Plague Freshmen With Requests | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...air moves in or out of the room," White says, "yet I am curiously effected by emanations from the immediate surroundings...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: New York: Loving Analysis | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

...School Forum Scheduled for to right at Langdell Court has been cancelled because of the illness of W. Burton Leach '21, professor of Law. Leach, a Brigadier-General in the U.S., Army Reserve and special counsel to the air force on the B-36 investigations, was to have spoken on "The Armed Services investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum Cancelled | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

...ritual of the second drink. Then he has to go to the men's room and she has to go to the ladies room, and when they return, the argument has lost its tone. And the fan takes over again, and the heat and the relaxed air and the memory of so many good little dinners is so many good little illegal places, with the theme of love, the sound of ventilation, the brief medicinal illusion...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: New York: Loving Analysis | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

...pages. He did in the only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the serenity of the pine trees would not let a man write well about New York) and moved to "a stiffing hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: New York: Loving Analysis | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

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