Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan area reported that the situation was intensified by the disappearance of William Carfare '39, president of Lampy. They revealed that the Lampoon safe was also missing. Since Carfare was rumored to have been seen in Pinehurst, North Carolina, Colonel Apted called in the G-men, it having become clear to him that the fugitive must have crossed a state line. "It's all too horrible," Apted mused, as he absentmindedly ordered two Rindge Tech students to "break it up!" The colonel's eyes gleamed. "Enough is enough!" he whispered...
With four veterans returning from last year's banner crew, Coach Tom Bolles looks forward to another successful year for the Varsity Crimson oarsmen. "If these four men do as well as they did last year they should make this year's crew," said Bolles yesterday, making it clear that the "if" is a very important one. Speaking of his Varsity boat, he said. "They haven't proven to me yet that they're the best boat...
Disclosure of the group was a matter of good fortune, depending on the fact that an abnormally sensitive photographic plate chanced to be focused on Sculptor on a very clear night. The photograph on which the system was found was taken at the Harvard astronomical observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...novel and the conventional detective story. Faced with the problem of presenting flesh-&-blood characters as pawns in a chess puzzle, most writers satisfy neither the novel reader nor the mystery addict. But Wilbur Daniel Steele does well by both. Background and atmosphere are authentic; the characters are clear but not overdeveloped; the plot is ingenious, well-planned, addict-proof...
Those who attend a lecture by Charles H. Smiley of Brown University, at an "open night" on Thursday at the Observatory will have the opportunity to look through the giant telesope if the sky is clear, authorities revealed today...