Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By noon yesterday Harvard had stopped looking like Harvard and began to look like any other college on the Big Game weekend. Pretty girls in red dresses appeared in the Yard and the Houses, and bottles replaced notebooks.
A couple of hours later the Square was quiet again, except for a few apple-checked young men arriving from Yale, but Soldier's Field was having its biggest afternoon of the season. The pretty girls and the undergraduates (with and without bottles) mingled with players, players' families, and Yalies...
By mid-afternoon nearby hospitals were jammed with people receiving oxygen treatments, and the Red Cross had set up an emergency station. Firemen moved through streets with portable oxygen bottles. A state of emergency was declared and elderly people were warned to leave the area. But, in 36 hours, hundreds...
In Austria, where traditions never die, the new civil servants still played the favorite national drama - gravely concocting and slowly handing back & forth list upon list of government decrees, which must be "carefully aged, like bottles of rare wine" before they could enter public life. And on the public roads...
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