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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undergraduate car owners, assuming their onerous place among other unprotected game, will find the coming season a difficult one to survive. An inflexible University administration can offer no help for the parking problems of students and forces them onto the needle sharp pencils of Cambridge traffic officers. With limited garage space hopelessly beyond the checkbooks of most men, drivers face exile or the prospect of frequent appearances at the Magistrate's Court for parking violations. As long as the University allows unlimited automobile privileges, it is, in part, responsible for alleviating the parking problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Season | 9/26/1947 | See Source »

Last fall, college officials recognized the need for student garage space, but discarded their idea of cross-Charles lots as a poor financial gamble when the plan received little response from car owners. Of the 110 men reporting no storage space, only fifty-five percent showed any interest in a parking area twenty minutes away from the Houses. With a tacit understanding between police and students owning out-of-state vehicles, most men found it convenient to leave cars on the street overnight, secure in the knowledge that their tickets would not be prosecuted. This autumn, in an effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Season | 9/26/1947 | See Source »

...drama that I think I'll take," he replied. "You read 75 plays, but it's worth your while." The fellow walked away without a word, and Vag, grinning broadly, leafed through the little book until he came to geography. "The topography of Boston Harbor," he read. "A car is desirable, but not..." Vag tossed the catalogue into the gutter and knifed his way through the premature football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/25/1947 | See Source »

...delegate. He was in town to watch the Assembly handle Egypt's case. Some day his own state might be in the same fix. Meanwhile, he was prepared to enjoy himself. "Before we came," he told a reporter over a lemonade last week, "we thought America had one car for each four persons. Now we're convinced there are four cars for each person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Omdurman to Flushing | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Bedding a car down under pampered circumstances in almost as expensive in Cambridge today as the average cost of living in a College dormitory, a survey of available indoor garage space disclosed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garageless Car Owners Find No Welcome Mats | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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