Word: annual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students owning ears in the Cambridge area might just as well sell their jalopies and buy unicycles. Unicycles don't need much parking space at night. Cars do. And in a week the Cambridge police force starts its annual campaign against overnight parking. Carowners have that long to sign up with the high-priced garages and parking lots around the Square; then the men in blue uniforms move in to tag the remaining cars and have them towed away...
Elizabeth Bagby '52 was yesterday named chairman of Radcliffe's annual song contest at the first fall meeting of the Student Council...
...C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers of America. Fired from the presidency after a Pottstown, Pa. local president charged him with trying to disrupt the local and fomenting a riot at one of its meetings, Conservative Buckmaster cleared himself in a seven-hour debate at the union's annual convention, then beat his perennial rival, George Bass, for another term...
...Founder Wykeham, in fact, specified that his students should be "pauperes et indigentes," and set an upper limit of ?3 6s. 8d. on their annual income, but few real "pauperes" ever got in. For centuries, most of the appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head...
...This annual melancholia did not generally extend to U.S. parents. Popeyed, they watched the new styles in clothes and friends take form; only half believing, they listened as, with the fall semester, the language began its annual metamorphosis on teen-age tongues...