Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred-fifty-pound Mr. Rosselli refused to answer questions on the business census (already under way). Rosselli's story: "This Girman he comes in. He says, 'Where you been? Every day I go to your store to ask you census but you ain't there.' I explain I got a store at Harvard [Ill.] too. Then he get abusive. He get hold of me by shirt and shook me and I shook him." Girman's version: "Rosselli didn't want to answer any of the questions and finally took after me and chased...
...dance floor. You are "cut in" quickly; but it soon becomes as convenience. There is little to talk about. You begin on her school, but after you have learned that she goes to Miss May's, Beaver or Winsor, conversation is over. In the fall you might ask her about field hockey, in the winter about the school play. She has probably taken a weekend to New York; but she can tell you nothing about the Nine O'clock...
...Rink; the air is crowded with laughter, and the whine of skate wheels on wooden floor. At first your skates don't seem to go in the right direction; you stumble. Your hand reaches out to steady yourself, and finds another hand in it. Funny, you never think to ask Why. She is there, and that's all, skating with you. She has brown hair tied back with a ribbon and a trim green dress. You are both talking at once; you have so much to say. Just as though you have known each other for years...
...begins to babble about Tschaikowsky. She plays it so much that her four year old nephew has learned to pronounce the name. She lives at the Newtowne housing project. Standing in the clean, wide court the wind catches her hair and makes it dance. And then you ask her (without ever thinking) about Monday night? Alice nods; Saturday night is over: Monday night will soon be here...
Application blanks are similar to those distributed during the last few years and ask for information such as first and second choice of Houses, price of room, the type of accommodation desired, academic standing, proposed field of concentration, and activities in which the student has engaged...