Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First of all, survey's conducted in Boston department stores show that shoppers who come to the store in cars buy 40 percent more merchandise that those who arrive by bus or subway. Secondly, parking lots farther away then 800 feet from shopping centers have proven unsuccessful and discouraging. Motorists prefer to come by MTA channels rather than park this far away. Thirdly, surface parking lots have been voted much more efficient than either the subterranean or "skyscrapper" variety, especially for a highly transient trade...
Columbia game tickets, "better than those that will be on sale in New York," according to Lunden, will be available until tomorrow night. Thus far the HAA has sold approximately 7000 tickets for the New York contest, a sale which Lunden says is "very good for an away game...
...played Columbia in New York since 1902 and had not played a major game in Gotham for well over a quarter of a century. There was no precedent to go by. Lunden was driven to a crystal ball for his prediction of Harvard fan attendance at an early season away game. He made the unfortunate assumption that undergraduates would not want to go to an away game the first Saturday after they arrived in College. So he decided to sell tickets first come, first served...
...most students, as they sat in an open car heading west or a metropolitan office or a Paris cafe, the summer's quota of world news sounded as if it had been coded and the key thrown away. No historian with an obscurantist bent could have dreamed up three months of events that inspired more confusion among the populace than did the months of July, August, and September in 1949, the fourth year of cold war. The headlines asked many questions, which, treated calmly, would have been difficult to answer; dealt with emotionally, as most of the questions were, they...
...Paris cafe or the office building or even in the open car (with the radio up high) no student could throttle his biases. If it is at all possible to study these new questions reasonably, then this University community is the place. Away from the picketlines and with the headlines tucked inside a notebook, perhaps we shall be able to unscramble some of the questions raised this summer, when the heat...