Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before 2 o'clock one afternoon last week, waiting newsmen were summoned into the Senate's majority conference room. Frayed and weary after four hours of haggling, Senator Robert Taft announced that he was about to start rewriting the Republican policy statement on inflation. Could he give out the gist of it? Not until it was rewritten, said Taft. "The words have to be exact or they don't mean anything," he said, flashing a copy of the statement, which was X-ed out, scrawled over and heavily edited in nearly every line...
...attempt to disabuse the audience's, traditional conceptions of Hamlet, the group voted to reduce staging and costuming to austerity. Kilty basked that all members of the club and any one interested i appearing in the play come to part readings in Sanders Theatre today at 1:30 o'clock...
...What a Man Has to Do," by Harold Fleming, is a restrained tale of violence and race hatred that has no direct message. Prejudice and hate press harder and harder on Berry, the Negro Army sergeant, until he "flies apart like the works of an over wound clock." This is a real short story, so seldom seen hitherto around here, with real characters in real situations...
Yesterday's five o'clock deadline found the trickle of entries still far short of the necessary 250, and University officials reiterated that absolutely no action would be taken on opening the field until the quota...
While the libraries will only lend books out overnight this year, librarians will not strictly insist on the 10 o'clock in the evening to 9 in the morning deadline...