Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent and wise move, the English Department voted to end the discrete, or building-block, approach to literature which permitted non-honors men to get a degree simply by accumulating, magpie-style, a collection of unrelated courses. Concentrators from the class of 1950, and those who follow, will have to take Divisional examinations, tutorial or no. The Department's action is striking because it brings home one unpleasant consequence of the trend away from tutorial: non-honors candidates graduated by the Department will from now on not be expected to know as much as their pre-war counterparts...
...assistants have made their bold bid to recoup the loss of the 1944 Hartford fire, and if mere bustle and flourish are any criterion of success, they've hit the tin can squarely with the bottle. Twenty-two Sensational Displays Where Daredeviltry Beggars Description, a Mammoth Menagerie and a Block-Busting Convention of 115 Cavorting Clowns assure enough show time for any calliope fan to consume peanuts, popcorn, and pink cotton candy to his heart's content. If by the end of four hours he hasn't forgotten his finals altogether, he deserves a well-lighted seat in the Side...
...Cuban Confederation of Labor is Peña. Once a tobacco worker and now a connoisseur of fine cigars, he dominates meetings of his 400,000-member Confederation with his booming, deliberate voice, his attacks on U.S. imperialismo, his praise of Russia. His chief monument is the block-long Palacio de Los Trabajadores (Labor Palace), for which President Ramón Grau San Martin allotted $772,000 to butter up the Communists after they had given him a political hotfoot...
Judith Nelson, Radcliffe '49, as Mrs. Tancred; J. Bradley Cuming 3rd '46 as Jerry Devine; Robert Lubchansky '48 as Charlie Bentham; Robert L. Wechsler '49 as an irregular mobilizer; Palmer Dixon '50 and Robert Claflin '50 as two irregulars; Dixon as a coal block vender; Arthur S. Bunker, Jr. '49 as a sewing machine man and a furniture removal man; Jay Levine '50 as a furniture removal man; Anna A. Prince, Radcliffe '48 and Lorn Slocombe as neighbors...
...their Champs-Elyseés shop. No one but Pierre and Jacques and their four sons knows how the scents are blended. The Guerlains do the work themselves, use girls only to bottle perfume. For months the perfumes were rationed and G.I.s used to line up for a block to buy the 250 bottles a day put on sale...