Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Havre is largely is ruins, although new docks and a new railroad station have been built. These are modern but of small capacity. Paris, on the other hand, seems untouched by the war. The food situation looks good. Ration stamps are unnecessary for a brief visit and gasoline is the only big black market commodity today. French cigarettes, bread, beer, and coffee, reported to be the most unsatisfactory items for tourists in Paris, are being widely enjoyed by Americans here today...
Romance traveled a rocky road; but love, with a brief, side-of-the-mouth laugh at locksmiths, conquered all. Francis Hitchcock, 39, balding younger brother of the late Long Island-polo-playing Tommy Hitchcock, and Stephany Saja, 23, blonde daughter of a Windber, Pa. coal miner, were taking a well-earned vacation-a honeymoon in Rio. It had been a nerve-racking week. In the course of just a few days, Stephany flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony...
...team starts at nine in the morning and ends at six in the evening with a brief break for lunch. Last year, the Crimson named the jayvee's field the Blood Pit. This fall, for the long gruelling sessions marked by hard contact and spirited battles between the squad's members for varsity positions, we name the varsity area the Blood...
...team starts at nine in the morning and ends at six in the evening with a brief break for lunch. Last year, the Crimson named the jayvee's field the Blood Pit. This fall, for the long gruelling sessions marked by hard contact and spirited battles between the squad's members for varsity positions, we name the varsity area the Blood...
Alice B. Gilbert, Radcliffe '49, is the new Northern New England Regional Chairman of the National Student Association--probably. She was elected at Madison, Wisconsin, after a brief caucus held on Saturday August 28, the last day of the N. S. A. convention...