Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to Father Murray's passing off the boycotting of offensive periodicals as a thing of ancient vintage: would it be out of order to mention Monsignor Freking's threat of a Catholic boycott of the Cincinnati Enquirer as recently as the last week in August [TIME, Sept...
They rode up & down the cliff in ancient funiculars (the "Inclines"), jammed the buses and trolley cars which filled the cobblestone, alley-like streets. The luckier and better-paid lived in nearby suburbs. Most of the wealthy had fled to the distant suburbs of Sewickley Heights, Fox Chapel, or to Rolling Rock, 50 miles to the east in the mountains near the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
...Ancient Problem...
Eleven o'clock: Culture seekers will find Fine Arts 11, ancient and medieval art, a tough but rewarding course, interesting to audit. Opdyke goes fast, shows you all the monuments you will want to see in Europe next summer (Fogg Large Room). History 168a, Oceanic History, is all about seafaring. Albion is colorful (Harvard 1). Reischaner gives the first past of Soc, Sci, 111, "History of Far Eastern Civilization." Expert and up-to-date information on a crucial area of the world...
...Most of these are the work of two Elis named Kochler and Voulgaris, who seem to be solely responsible for putting their magazine several notches above other college funny papers, including the Lampoon. The rest of this issue consists of some involved and mostly unfunny stories, all based on ancient gimmicks, a pot of putrid he-she jokes admittedly culled from the 1920-1921 editions of the Record, and the phrase "'53 Skidoo" repeated six times throughout...