Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for Commencements, periodic class reunions, and Yale games, a Harvard alumnus has little chance to come into much contact with his University. If he should ever care to come back and look up old friends and classmates, visit sons or brothers, or just drop in on old surroundings, any kind of common meeting place in Cambridge is nonexistent if he lacks Club affiliations. Were he a Yaleman, he could get together in an old colonial mansion serving as a "Yale Graduates' Club," but here, unfortunately, the old grad is left more or less to his own ingenuity and that...
Vincent Astor, who was christened William Vincent Astor, went to court in Manhattan to stop a Vincent Astor Williams from doing business as the Vincent Astor Purchasing Co. Retorted Williams: his grandmother was Vincent Astor's great aunt, and he had just as much right to drop the Williams from one end of his name as Astor had to drop the William from the other...
...little vacation. I am going away for three weeks-if I can make it, four weeks, and I think I will." He was going to the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va. Later, he might visit other southern cities. On the way home he probably would drop in on President Truman in Washington...
...fear, or the reluctance of most businessmen to charge less than the traffic would bear, there seemed to be small hope of general price reductions until a drastic drop in buying power forced them. Everyone was content to let George do it. And the longer prices remained unreasonably high, the farther-and faster-they would fall when the inevitable drop came...
After two weeks practice on the low, fast-bouncing surfaces of the Indoor Athletic Building, the slow, damp clay at Annapolis throw the Crimson just enough off balance to drop the decision by one match. The next day at West Point, rain forced the contest onto the fast indoor cement courts, aging throwing the Varsity off-balance to the tune of a 6-3 defeat...