Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harried study card jugglers, armed with nothing but a pen and a sketchy list of courses, will find some relief this month, at least in one department of the University...
Upon return, this slip will simply be removed and the book put directly on the shelf. There should thus be no delay while the borrower's signed card is located, since the slip of paper can be checked against it later...
Next to blondes, gentlemen prefer poker. Blackjack, learnedly classified as "vingt-et-un," is a low born associate of spinning ivories on khaki blankets, and is favored only by those majoring in R.O.T.C. The advent of General Education has definitely entrenched the five card classic, with numerous aberrations localized somewhat to the bank of the Charles...
More reckless spirits favor a type of poker known as "the fiery cross." No hand here comes cheaper than a flush, which generally gets flushed where it belongs. With practically every card in the deck wild, so are the players, who also profess proficiency in the double cut and the under-arm shift...
When despair and bouncing checks begin to plague the card-fancier, he often takes deluded refuge in a poker game called "barber's itch." Here two people split the pot, and the rest split blue chips into red chips and red chips into bits of grimy paper...