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...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...

Author: By L. ESORIT Gaulois, | Title: Social Life Vital Part of Students' Initiation Into "The Fellowship of Educated Men" | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

Against an Axis attempt to take Gibraltar, seal the western Mediterranean and thus neutralize many of the benefits of the North African invasion, the Allies could do very little in advance. Gibraltar and its harbor are already chock-full of defenders. But, at the cost of resources sorely needed in Tunisia, they had to prepare to offset the loss of Gibraltar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Franco and the Rock | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...keep ahead of the news Chapin and his associates have built up a "bank" chock full of maps they have drawn to illustrate events that might erupt into the headlines-maps they could fill in and finish at a few minutes' notice. For example, three years ago they prepared a basic map of the invasion of Britain, which needs only the direction arrows and the names of the beachhead battlefields to be ready for the plate-maker. I hope (pretty confidently) that we shall never have a chance to use this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 14, 1942 | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of the automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...

Author: By L. ESORIT Gaulois, | Title: Social Life Vital Part of Students' Initiation Into "The Fellowship of Educated Men" | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...exhibit of Eskimo culture, which illustrates the newly - conceived, "Museum" technique of exhibiting only a few objects in a case at one time. The theory behind this is that one well placed bow and arrow or a single sled will teach more to the average observer than a case chock full of implements from which he will probably turn away in complete boredom. On the fifth floor, there is a collection of Arctic mummies donated the Museum by no less and earthy organization than the American Meatpackers' Institute. The story behind this gift is a curious one: a few years...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: THE LIVING EXPLORE THE DEAD AT PEABODY | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

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