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Collective Measures Committee, "as a matter of urgency, to consider additional measures," then left the door ajar for negotiations with Peking by proposing a stand-by committee of three that would handle any bid from the Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Seven Months After | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Finding their original objective away, the Mount Ida bevy alighted instead on Richard M. Edelman '52, who had carelessly left his door ajar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lovelies Call on Dunster; Startled House Strikes Back | 5/16/1950 | See Source »

...place from which light was almost excluded now by cobwebs across its two windows and into which, with the door ajar, the shafted sun lay in a lengthened arch of blazing sovereigns. Over a corn bin on which he had packed last autumn's ferns lay Paddy snoring ... a web strung from one lock of hair back onto the sill above . . . Caught in the reflection of spring sunlight this cobweb looked to be made of gold as did those others which by working long minutes spiders had drawn from spar to spar of the fern bedding on which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molten Treasure | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...script leaves little room for love interest. Dorothy Malone, who ends up marrying Kennedy, hardly gets past the threshold of the plot. But Alexis Smith, as a sultry barroom singer with her lids at half-mast and her lips provocatively ajar, weaves more prominently in & out of the all-male hubbub. Eventually, her shady morals and mascara notwithstanding, she becomes the wife of Rancher McCrea. The highly involved plot in South of St. Louis, always pretty implausible, moves along at a fast enough clip to look convincing, and most of the principals are old enough hands at this sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...little red doors on Plympton st. are still ajar for late entrants in the CRIMSON'S spring competitions, which officially got under way last night. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors can come out for the news, editorial, and business board; the photo board is open to freshmen and sophomores. Curtain time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comps Still Open | 2/18/1949 | See Source »

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