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...Closing of three cooperative houses operated by the University in Cambridge by the fall of 1951, or earlier if demand falls off materially. These dwellings-- at 9 Oxford Street, 9 Bow Street and 3 Channing Place--have accommodated 18 student families...
Next day, in dark suits, white bow ties and black gowns, the culprits would present themselves at the proctorial office in Broad Street for punishment-anything from a small fine to "rustication" (suspension) for breaking one of the university's oldest laws...
Appropriately, the first witness was U.S. Steel Corp.'s beet-faced President Benjamin F. Fairless, who had been the first to raise his prices. Adjusting his brown bow tie and his horn-rimmed spectacles, Fairless summed up his story at the start. "There is no mystery about our price increases," he said. "They were made necessary by heavy increases in our costs...
...Paris and London, Burmese Days and Coming Up for Air. The first two, first published in the U.S. in 1933 and 1934, had met the fate of most depression-born books by unknown writers. Coming Up for Air, published in Britain in 1939, is making its first U.S. bow. All three are good Orwell and good reading, wholly different from Farm and 1984, wholly different from each other...
Anyone interested in proving the theory can stand at the corner of Bow and Mt. Auburn and look down at the Toon quivering in its little...