Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...
...time to gasp before the 457,000 words (1,047 pages) of Gone With the Wind were snatched out of the air from across the city by a gadget called "Ultrafax"* and reproduced on a moving photographic film. The transmission took two minutes and 21 seconds. Impresario of the event was David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America. Not a man to be caught in understatement, Sarnoff compared the importance of Ultrafax to that of splitting the atom...
...Harvard yachtsmen had demanded, the race will be sailed with the losers' shirts at stake, an old crew custom that Commodore Putnam insisted should be carried over for this event. But the Radcliffe dinghy sailors warn Putnam that there will be some surprises in store for him if they should lose...
Last week a young lady, attempting to cross Massachusetts Avenue in front of Lehman Hall, was knocked down by a car making the turn toward the Law School. Not that such an event is unusual; to most residents in the neighborhood of the Square, it is probably surprising that it does not happen more often...
This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like...