Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stein, Radcliffe '50, was working in a Los Angeles bank before the war, trying to save enough money for a college education. The twenty-three year old ex-Corporal had patiently snapped greenbacks, balanced ledgers, and rolled up coins, waiting for the time she could give up a cozy cage for an overheated classroom...
...books, the most distinctive feature of the Grolier Book Shoppe is its well-worn sofa. Apparently an ordinary piece of furniture, it has been warmed by the posteriors of the most erudite inmates of the ivy-covered squirrel-cage. This indeterminable-hued divan has sustained the weight of the wearer of the blackest, thickest-rimmed glasses among Cambridge cognoscenti. It has also supported innumerable bodies beneath as many heads holding rimless spectacles, prime among these being Cairnie himself. For sitting comfort, the Grolier ottoman is approached only by the bootblack stand at Felix's Shoe Shine Spa, and there...
Smoke and flame bursting through the roof and windows of the second story of the Carey Cage threatened serious destruction to the Stadium at Soldiers's Field yesterday afternoon before the fire was brought under control...
Nothing has been heard from most of these "civilian" freshmen as yet, and the coaches are appealing to all those interested in football to report at Briggs Cage Monday at 2:30, then sign up and draw equipment any time during the rest of the afternoon. The invitation goes, of course, not only for freshmen, but for all football players who have not yet been around for pre-season practice...
...field offices were not required to account for money they collected. Sometimes they kept money around for over a year before it was entered in RFC's records. (In April the New York office had $1,300,000 in checks lying around a cashier's cage...