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...ceased to exist. The Class of '45 and preceding classes knew the ivy-covered building across Quincy Street from the President's house as the place where they met their classmates three times daily for meals and also as a spacious recreation hall containing common rooms, libraries, and billiard rooms reserved exclusively for "Yardlings." The great and long-to-be remembered social event of the Freshman year, the Jubilee, has also been traditionally held in the Union, and the Smoker was moved there this year from Memorial Hall...
...every five adults in the U.S. bowls. This phenomenon is not only the good luck of Chicago's Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., the world's No. 1 manufacturer of billiard & bowling paraphernalia-it is also due largely to BBC's good management...
...began moving her things from "Friendship," which she has sold to the U.S. for a housing project. Said she: "I shall . . . keep on ... with the same old parties and the same old friends." She bought her new diggings, complete with elaborate formal gardens, outsize ballroom, marble-floored billiard room, and swimming pool from Alexander Kirk, U.S. Minister to Egypt...
...teeming with overland adventurers (coureurs des bois), boatmen (voyageurs), townsmen (habitants). "There were spruce military men from the American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to boast a dozen billiard rooms and only one small church. . . . Most astonishing to Shreve were the warehouses where he had to select his furs. . . . Pelts were stacked high on every side . . . and heaped in hills about the floor, hung from rafters and bulging from the adjoining sheds...
...season defined the campaign. The easiest area for attack was the central plain just above and below the vast Pripet Marshes. The two main German drives developed there - one headed for Minsk and Moscow, the other for Kiev and the Ukraine (see map) - over land flat as a billiard table, through fields still too green to be burned, under a sky clear enough for half-blind pilots. The weather would stay fine for three months, within which the Germans intended to attain their objectives...