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...Room. Even if the arguments for excluding girls from Lamont are valid--and that is certainly an open question--they do not apply in this case. Extra copies of records would not have to be bought, extra attendants would not be needed to keep down the volume of coed chatter, and there certainly would be room enough if the new Poetry Room drew as few people as the old one did. The librarians, however, are afraid that with the Poetry Room in a more convenient location than in the Widener, indifference might give way to curiosity and traffic would become...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lost in the Shuffle | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

...George and Margaret" opens upon the breakfast table of the Garth-Banders, and as the members of the family tumble down to breakfast and begin to chatter unmercifully, the spectator finds he has been served: (1) a seemingly absent-minded but really very wise father; (2) an excitable, harassed but well-loved mother; (3) a sporty undergraduate son, much given to snappy, devastating insults; (4) a bouncy, easily-bruised daughter, much given...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: George and Margaret | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...Careful, Careful." As Li talked, a Chinese air force Mustang, humming along in the fading twilight, nosed over and swooped down on a village three mile, east. A few seconds later we heard the sharp chatter of machine guns. "That village is my objective tonight," said Li. "When the sun is down my artillery will open up and then the infantry will move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle Piece | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...make a darn good captain," said Coach Bruce Munro. "I think Batch deserves a lot more credit than he got during the year. He's got the spirit and the chatter and everything else a good captain needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goalie Batchelder Is Elected New Varsity Soccer Captain | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

Today Faneuil Hall is still a market--on Saturday evenings Dock Square is a frenzy of buying and selling, pushcarts laden with produce, chatter in half a dozen tongues. And looking down from its perch high above the Tower squats the huge grasshopper weather-vane. Hammered from sheet copper in 1742 by Deacon Shem Drowne, this grasshopper has sat atop Faneuil Hall for 200 years. In the earthquake of 1775 it fell to the street and suffered a broken leg, but was run up again as fast as it could be repaired...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Grasshopper Market | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

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