Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to provide a permanent mailing address for officers, and in order to plan activities for their wives, every man coming here for training or research is required to fill out an information card, answering such questions as his marriage status, his occupation and his branch of the service. These are kept on file in the committee office. The office secretary, in charge of the files, is always available to answer any questions for bewildered newcomers...
...dining room he noticed two people standing at the stamp table. One was wearing a waiter's uniform; he said he wanted to buy some stamps before the door closed. The other was Ted, whom he noticed giving two dollars and grabbing a white pledge card...
...ball, isn't it? God, if other colleges can sell $1000 a week, we should be able to make that look like chicken feed." Chicken feed? For 4000 Harvard guys, I guess it is, thought Vag. "Well, I'll think about it, anyway." He reached for a card on the table. "You know, there's no reason why we can't do it if those other guys can. Why haven't we started this before? "But we have been--" answered the man behind the table, who was counting up his money for the day. "Have you?" asked Vag, though...
...Princeton man has softened up the Japanese language. Using a formula of poker-playing days in college,* balding Burton Crane, 41 (Princeton ex-'22), invented a card game which he claims will teach a speaking knowledge of Japanese (a vocabulary of 800 words) in ten sessions. His game smashes to smithereens collegiate par for the course: 18 months...
Lingo has go cards, each containing five sentences in English and Japanese (written in English instead of Japanese characters). Players examine all the cards dealt (not more than three to a player) for a few minutes and try to memorize the Japanese translations. Then each player in turn reads an English sentence from one of his own cards to a player at his left, who wins a card if he answers with a correct translation. Stakes are paid off to the player who wins the most cards...