Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes of the Yard will no longer be furnished living space by the College. Admittedly a desperation move, this announcement constitutes a tacit admission on the part of the University that it is no longer capable of providing quarters for all of its students. Every trick in the bag, including the re-classification of every room in the Houses, has been used in an effort to house the human torrent that will flood over Harvard next month...
...Proclaimed drastic restrictions on 1946 duck hunting (under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act); among them: season cut from 80 to 45 days; daily bag limit cut from ten to seven; reason: too few ducks...
Married. Ed Wynn (real name: Isaiah Edwin Leopold), 59, lisping, giggling star of stage, screen, and radio, author-producer of Broadway hits (The Perfect Fool, The Grab Bag, Ed Wynn's Carnival), father of Cinemactor Keenan Wynn; and Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt, 41, of New Rochelle, N.Y.; he for the third time; she for the second; in Las Vegas...
...hunt, the Government has enlisted an enthusiastic army of farmers, veterinarians and Zulu warriors in full warpaint. Zulus take little stock in the white man's nonsense that flies can kill cattle; they know that witches are responsible. But they are looking forward to fun and a record bag of game...
Bjartur's children get no coddling: "I had boiled fish and tallow and cod-liver oil in my sucking-bag before I was a year old, and throve well on it." Food is scarce; winters are cold...