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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everybody has money, and entertainment of all kinds goes full blast. Ninety per cent of the people you meet say, 'I think we're too complacent here at home.' "The people are talking a lot of Republican talk, but from what I could see of the tenor of the people the President will stay in next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Report on the Nation | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

January 7 and 28 are the dates for the new play, which will be presented at the girls' school in Newton. Twenty per cent of the profits will go to the United War Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Will Present Joint Play With Beavet Girls | 12/17/1943 | See Source »

Cough drops and aspirin have boomed 20 per cent around the Square, but the most popular nostrums are pills of vitamins A and D, which are popularly believed to prevent or cure colds, although the Hygiene Department claims that no such value has been evidenced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Below Freezing Weather Sends Many Harvard Men to Drugstores Saloons | 12/14/1943 | See Source »

...early age George quit public school and joined a roller-skating act. Then he formed a ballroom-dancing act with a 16-year-old girl whom he named Hermosa José, after a five-cent cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Straight Man | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...Sexes should be segregated in high school," said Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, "for students do not work as well as they should in adodles-cent co-education." Following this, however, professor Sorokin contended that in the more mature college students co-education was advisable, adding, "I wanted to merge my Harvard and Radcliffe Sociology A sections, but the dean's refused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Thinks Harvard Men Grown-up; Calls Them Immune to Co-ed Temptations | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

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