Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snatching tribute as: 10% on theater tickets costing 10? or more; 5% on nightclub bills; 6% on telephone bills for local calls; 10% on telegrams and long-distance calls costing 25? or more; 11% on club dues over $10 a year; 5% on train tickets, transportation by plane or bus or boat, when the fare is over...
...girls of a college sorority as the last man in the world they'd like to be left alone with on a desert island. That honor moved him to say: "Tings like dat is all advertising. Good for yuh. As for dem college graduates, I know some. Mostly bus boys tryin' to woik deir way up to waiters...
Captain Ted Lyman is the only Varsity candidate in College who is not rowing this fall, since Ted is finding plenty to do for Dick Harlow across Soldiers Field road. But back from last year's first boat are stroke Bus Curwen, who is going to put in a couple of months' rowing before reporting to Hal Ulen for swimming, Dave Challinor at seven, Hallett Whitman six, Paul Pennoyer two, and Tom Boynton coxswain...
...University Commons, Yale Freshman dining hall which formerly operated on a basis similar to that of the Harvard Union, has been returned to a cafeteria, self-service system, and undergraduate bus boys and waiters, formerly hired by the Commons, are now being employed in Yale's ten residential colleges...
When & if Greyhound can get steel and other construction materials (probably not very soon), it will tear the old buildings down. In their place will rise a long, low (four stories) $3,000,000 building which will be the world's largest and swankest bus station. Busses will enter the basement by ramps, unload passengers to escalators running to a first floor complete with waiting rooms, shops, restaurant, newsreel theater, parking garage...