Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike many colleges throughout the country, Harvard entered the housing free-for-all late in the game. Six months after M.I.T. broke ground for their college-financed West gate project, Harvard was still tied down in complex arrangements with the city and federal government aimed at importing second-hand, defense plant dwellings for use on Cambridge sites. The negotiations paid off-200 families now live in the Jarvis Field and Business School developments-while 100 more will find lodging , though definitely not low-cost, in the recently acquired Brunswick Hotel. More than anything else, University Hall has counted...
Finally Herschel V. Johnson, standing in for new U.S. Delegate Warren R. Austin (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), broke the silence. He could not give the U.S. position; Washington needed more than five days to formulate a policy...
Mabel Dodge Luhan, arty salon keeper and tireless tell-all (Intimate Memories, et al.), broke out in glittery Town & Country: "I am going to tell you some things about grandmothers. I am one. . . . Their day is over. . . . Nobody wants them. . . . What are they to do?" Simple: they should "love more rather than less as time goes on . . . It is a solution for me, so why cannot it be for others . . . ? I am having a fine time loving people. . . . Sexagenarian Luhan has been married four times-currently to Taos Indian Tony Luhan...
...Exeter's big game with Andover last week, the score was 2 to 2 in the ninth, when a storm broke. The last person to leave the Exeter stand, looking mightily disappointed at the tie score, was a man in a battered brown hat and a black Navy raincoat. He was Exeter's new principal, William Gurdon Saltonstall...
Saltonstall, a history teacher at Exeter since 1932, was just going to bed one night when Board Chairman Thomas S. Lament and retiring Principal Lewis Perry called and took him to the Exeter Inn. There the trustees broke the news. Students heard about it at Sunday chapel. They followed him home. Exeter's cheerleader called for "nine rahs for Saltonstall," and had trouble getting it out. Bill grinned. "Just call me Salty," he said...