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...Japanese books, housed below the building in stacks through which run sinister oriental alleys. Through new intensive courses in Japanese, Cantonese, and Mandarin, the H.-Y. Institute is responsible for one of Harvard's major contributions to the war effort, as grinning section men daily ask "How you say dis please?" The least of the building's occupants was the informal Harvard Peeping Tom Society, which collapsed after a few weeks last summer when the dim-out and finally the closing of the Reading Room and the front door shut off the Wigglesworth landscape...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

Anyhow, you will know what the story is if Teacher asks "How you say dis please?" and is answered by a high-pitched chirp from under the table...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

...settlement time came, Old Man Town set before each of his hands a check for several hundred dollars (only a scrap of what he owed them) and a hatful of quarters and half-dollars. He told them to take their pick. "The Negro reached for the hat. 'All dis mine?' he said. 'Wait,' said Old Man Town. 'I fergot to take out my half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cotton King | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Dis drip wuz filled wit sadness and gives me da brusheroo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mutiny in Brooklyn | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...Dis team is filled with sissies wot won't guzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mutiny in Brooklyn | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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