Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many undergraduates in the year 1946, a copy of the Crimson was a new and peculiar object, a suspicious offspring of the wartime cocoon (label: Harvard Service News) from which the Crime burst in 16-page auspiciousness on April...
...financial stringencies in the way, threw the issue back to the departments. The fight suspended with tutorial's first triumph, in the newly-formed Social Relations Department, which reconsidered an earlier decision and adopted "modified" tutorial. "Undergraduate opinion has won its first post-war victory," gloated the Crime...
...circulation genius whom the cousins had hired away from Hearst, found a way out and up. They dumped the News on foreign-language newsstands for buyers who could understand its pictures if not its captions, and peddled it to subway riders who seemed to have a boundless appetite for crime and sex stories...
Last week, after tagging along with ace crime reporter Underwood for six weeks, Phoebe Hearst, granddaughter of W.R. and daughter of eldest son George, got to cover an assignment all by herself. It was only a Cancer Prevention Society meeting, and the story was killed after the early editions, but she felt encouraged. The family had thought she ought to start out in the society department, but she "couldn't see much fun in going to teas all the time...
Five Bars in Helsinki. Freddy himself was only 16 when he committed his first crime against classical music. He and some fellow high-school boys had played their way to Europe on a Cunard liner. Later, in Helsinki, playing at a hotel, they heard that Jean Sibelius would be a dinner guest that night. They hurriedly worked up a ragtime version of Sibelius' Valse Triste. Sibelius heard five bars of it, and stalked heavily from the room. Says Freddy now: "That's one reason I've never attempted to do anything with Sibelius...