Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother, fiance, husband, father or uncle in the Army who needs cigarets, socks, a sweater, favorite articles of food, regular letters of affectionate encouragement and such efforts as she can make toward attending to his neglected affairs. Thousands of French women are holding their husbands' jobs today as bus conductors, mail carriers, taxi drivers, and in stores and factories...
...Will you please explain to me as a former bus driver, what you mean by 'academic freedom' " the sponsor of the Teachers' Oath law writes. "I am waiting for it so as I can explain it to the rank and file alumni...
Last year's Freshmen seemed to have a good time together. Yardling Coach Pete Peterson says it's because they went on several bus trips together; at any rate, it's a good sign of the will to work which is about 90% of being a good swimmer (5% is natural ability; 5% guts). Dave Stearns, leader of the '42 team, typifies the Sophomores: he has spirit--works hard and once tried unsuccessfully to throw a newspaperman into the pool: he has a measure of speed, and he enjoys pulling his rotund body through the water. So do his classmates...
Potential material for the distance free style events are Bus Curwen, who prepped at Exeter, and Frank German, from Cleveland. Bob Stires also shapes up as a good distance swimmer but he seems versatile enough to serve as a general utility...
Appointed, Jeff arrives in Washington with a crate of carrier pigeons and a flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...