Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Thomas Kelly sat on a campus bench reading Shelley by the light of the moon. To the cops who saw him there, this seemed highly suspicious conduct. Kelly didn't think his conduct needed any defense or explanation and he couldn't produce a draft card. So they jugged him. Said one policeman: "See if you can take that, Lord Byron...
...Card, High Grades. Each year the kids concentrate on a different period of history (third grade, Norse; fourth, Greek, etc.), study its history, literature, painting, music, sculpture. But above all, they learn how all these subjects are "related." The Taylor theory: "To study 12th Century sculpture without realizing the tremendous force of the religious movements of the Middle Ages would be as blind as to study a maple leaf with no realization . . . of how it grew...
...students, who never receive a report card until the eighth grade, seem to do well after they leave her. Last year four Shady Hill alumnae were graduated from Radcliffe, and all four were Phi Beta Kappa...
Inaugurated at the beginning of the term, the service is open to veterans and non-veterans alike, although it is run entirely by the University Chapter of the American Veterans Committee. It is designed to facilitate the buying and selling of second-hand texts by means of a card catalogue listing volumes offered for sale by students who no longer need them...
...characters cavort in the back room, a love story goes on in front. Robert Young and Barbara Hale manage to combine good looks with meaningless going-on in a bedroom chase that alternates with under-the-table larceny. Miss Hale is pretty enough to twist the arm of any card-sharp, which she manages to do with great proficiency. "Lady Luck" won't teach you any new tricks, but it's fun watching other suckers suffer on the screen...