Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swanny's Good Food has been doing a rush business between 12 and 2 o'clock. Undergraduates descend on the establishment at midnight and, ignoring juke box and waitresses, gobble a snack and leave. Joe, who forgot his last name years ago, waxed philosophical over the good business with "students can't live on print alone, and I'm glad they...
Monitors were bribed for class lists. Tutoring school pamphlets were found in every mail box and on every bulletin board. Their advertising was the financial backbone of college publications. Students who tried to get an education the hard way were subjected to the disdain of their wealthier or less scrupulous associates...
Class of '48 election techniques ran the gauntlet with middling results at the meeting as Dudley House voting was censured because one aspirant officer saw fit to campaign unduly close to the ballot box...
...Reporter Breslin stood at the side of U.S. 112 near Willow Run, and stuck out his thumb. He had a $50 bill, a sign that said "Rose Bowl or Bust," a box of his mother's chicken sandwiches, and letters to wirephoto bureaus along the way. At 6:30 p.m., chilled to the bone (and with $47.86 left) he got to Coldwater, Mich., 114 miles from home...
This prosperity did not cover everything. The private plane industry flew through an overcast of bankruptcies; most prefabricated housing still remained in the box. The airlines dropped an estimated $13 million in the most disastrous year they ever had, and the big plane companics sat, hat in hand, in Washington, pleading with the Government to save their industry...