Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge police yesterday announced a more rigid enforcement of local parking regulations. All cars now parked illegally on any posted street, will be towed away at the first offense...
...hocus pocus of Phi Beta Kappa meetings began to fade away in the 1830's largely as a result the work of the Harvard chapter's Edward Everett, Joseph Story, and John Quincy Adams. The Harvard chapter's change in policy probably saved Phi Beta Kappa from becoming nothing more than the oldest collegiate social organization in the United States...
When Empson read it aloud, his Bacchus swept his hearers away with its sonority and music, having an effect that Poet John Crowe Ransom likened to "the blazing beauty of fireworks." But what most impressed them was the detachment with which this prodigious man regarded a notoriously threatened and self-conscious world. The last poem in his new book was a meditation on world culture...
...Look Away, Look Away ... In Fort Worth, after a state industrial accident board awarded Norman L. Daugherty compensation when a Yankee socked him in the eye for whistling Dixie, the insurance company appealed on the ground that it was no accident but a continuation of the War Between the States...
Three freshman teams came through with good solid wins on Saturday. Dolf Samborski's '52 baseball team blasted out a 13 to 4 victory over Governor Dummer, while a stone's throw away in the Stadium the Yardling trackmen opened their spring schedule by winning a triangle meet against Boston University and Boston College, 96 1/5, 62 4/5, 14. The freshman lacrosse team traveled to Northfield to wrest a 6 to 4 win from Mount Hermon...