Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cambridge landmark is functioning today as a comfortable and busy library for members of Kirkland House. In the very place where idle upperclassmen now lounge in the midst of an 18th century philosophy collection," a forebearer of the Hicks family once slipped out of a winter's night to dump taxed tea into Boston Harbor; in the midst of what is now the renaissance collection, General Washington planned the abortive attempt to bottle up English forces in New England...
...Schaefer with hope. New York, for instance, has paid over $7,000,000 in a single winter to clean snow from its streets. If artificial snowmaking proves effective, meteorologists will watch for supercooled clouds bearing down on a city. Airplanes will give them the dry ice treatment, making them dump their snow outside the city limits. Perhaps, if ski-minded, the weathermakers can shunt the snow to winter resorts...
Landslide? In the privacy of the voting booth, contemplating 14 years of Democratic rule, voters may dump many another Democrat overboard. Then such candidates for re-election as radical Hugh De Lacey, of Washington, able Mike Monroney, of Oklahoma, gracious, conscientious Emily Taft Douglas, of Illinois, handsome Helen Gahagan Douglas, of California - all of whom are hotly engaged - will also disappear. Not only would there then be no question of Republicans organizing the House; the Republicans would have solid, unassailable control...
...except for such items as bicycles, trains and erector sets which will still be short, U.S. moppets will have almost everything. Items: streamlined baby strollers; aluminum jeeps and station wagons; helicopters; stuffed spaniels that glow in the dark; toy sinks with running water; model kits to make prefabricated houses; dump trucks; and an electrical gun that throws pictures on the wall with each pull of the trigger. For the first time in six years, Germany will ship some $250,000 worth of music boxes, harmonicas, mohair deers, whiz-bang racing cars...
Although a large force of men are employed each night to sweep up the cigarettes, the Yard presents a tempting nicotine dump for the greater part of the day. To squelch ugly rumors that elder squirrels are about to report this condition to the A.S.P.C.A. and the Sanitation Department, we must begin a campaign to eliminate the cigarette from squirrel culture. Several plainly marked, strategically placed butt cans and a conscientious effort on the part of the student body to keep their cigarettes off the ground would save the squirrel from the fate of the buffalo...