Word: casual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sandwiched somewhere between each college's nighteries and maps is a list of the girls' own big weekends so that smoothies can call her up for a casual get-together and corner the all-important invitation...
...hoopla surrounding whether Bingham would grant the 200 passes has a history. Before the war several thousands of boys found their way eased into each University grid contest. Supervision was casual to say the least; many of the tickets given out were resold by the shrewder, and of the kids who really went to the game, an acquisitive minority stripped up seat boards for sweet nostalgia's sake...
...institution of an obviously-needed change. Young instructors, who might appear logical to man this sort of course, will hesitate to accept an assignment which they might savor but which they could certainly not utilize in terms of their academic world. Meanwhile the monumental Gide must find a casual comparative niche with Hardy and Conrad in English 62 rather than emerge in the context of his own culture...
...those of you who happened to drop into our reception room and see the fair and to scores of casual passers-by as well, TIME feels that the above explanation is overdue. We are also especially pleased at the reaction of two of our visitors: one, an advertising executive, was so taken with the painting exhibits that she offered to buy six of them on the spot for her private collection; the other, a Philadelphia merchant, made minute inquiries into the workings of the fair, saying he planned to try it next year in his own department store...
...next day he and everybody else got a surprise. In the middle of a casual interview, amiable, angular Senator Saltonstall told newsmen that he was not really a presidential candidate; all he wanted to be was Massachusetts' best senator. Then he ticked off his own list of "leading candidates." Tom Dewey was No. 1. The others, in Saltonstall's order: Warren, Taft, Stassen, Eisenhower, and Speaker Joe Martin. That did not mean that Saltonstall was out as a New England favorite, or that he had given Dewey his blessing. But Farmer Tom left Springfield in a good mood...