Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...card holders alike were forced to take a trolley, pack into a bus, bum rides or walk...
...your athletic locker. And don't worry about getting home in September. Rumor bath it that gas will be abundant and hitch-hiking profitable by that time. No: just pull out the ten spot and slide it to the gent across the desk, paste your picture on the card he gives you, and squirm...
...more unjustified or dictatorial than the new policy of requiring every man who buys a participation fee to rent a locker. The decision was taken by the H. A. A. without consulting the Student Council and was then cleverly disguised in order to soften the blow. Nowhere on the card was the compulsory rental made clear; it was left to the student to figure it out all by himself...
...obstructionist and isolationist tactics are concerned, here is his record on war bills: for the Draft Law, for Lend-Lease, for Axis Ship Seizure and for extension of the Draft Law. With the vote turnout as small as it was, the X-card issue was hardly a factor; Congressman Faddis was defeated almost solely by a vengeance vote of Labor...
Poker. In San Francisco, Mrs. Claire Curtin won an annulment after describing her married life. She said that in 1939 her husband had taken time out from a session of poker to marry her, then announced: "Okay, kid, I'm going back to the card game." She concluded: "I haven't seen him since...