Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clem Attlee waved his honorary union card and assured the grinning pressmen: "It's O.K." Then the Prime Minister pushed a little button, and the presses at Odhams' , started to roll. The London Daily Herald (circ. 2,131,824), British Labor's official newspaper, was 10,000 issues...
Commenting on widespread tuition hikes in other universities over since the close of World War II, the Provost remarked, "These universities are in no better a position than we are, and they have already played their card. Now what are they going to do when enrollment drops...
...smooth. Roughest point: at the space reserved for Eire's delegation, a conference flunky put a card marked Irlande du Nord. The indignant Irish delegate, Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, suspected a British plot. The head usher hastily repaired this gaffe by sending for scissors, cutting off the last two words...
...Report Card (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). A documentary on the physical and philosophic crisis in U.S. education...
...lead on the first leg, but then Verdued took over and on the butterfly leg pulled to within a foot of Yale's Joe Seldon. By this time, the jammed house, weary from watching Yale sweep to three firsts and a second in the first four events on the card, was yelling for LaSalle. Jack Lumsden, LaSalle freestyler, finally nailed Don Irwin in the final three yards and won by about half a foot...