Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a succession of competent heads, the band continued, but only as a good football season group. No attempt was made to branch out, and with the last strains of "Harvardiana" after the Yale game each playing year came to an official...
Miss Swanson claimed "the movies still have a lot more to offer than the stage or television," and said she would also like to see Hollywood attract students by offering a summer vacation apprentice program. The actress added she "would be glad to help anyone who came...
Then it presented "The Man Who Came to Dinner." It paid off most of the "Amphitryon' 'deficit, and went $500 into debt...
...coming thing in continental transportation, however, is hitch-hiking. It apparently came in with the G.I's. Its local name is "auto-stop," and differs from the U. S. variety in that it is considered impolite to stick out one's thumb. The proper method is to hold out the whole arm, bout at the elbow. Even girls can hitch-hike without eyebrows being raised...
...summer evaporated in no time at all and the thousands of students, minus a lucky few who stayed on to study or work, came swarming back to the Land of the Loud Tie and the Hot Dog. They all had stacks of snapshots of themselves with monuments in the background, suitcases full of bottles of cheap French cognac, and perhaps a "not-to-be-introduced-into-the-United States' edition or two of Henry Miller. And once back at college, they all settled down to pceve their friends no end by comparing everything at home...