Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a spontaneous movement from the rank-and-file clearly indicates the popular demand to fill the social vacuum in the House system. The "idea" of the Houses--intellectual contact between faculty and students--suffered greatly when tutorial was beaten to its knees a couple of years ago. The companion theory that a House should bring students with common interests together, has also been almost submerged. Many of the difficulties arose from the war, and the Houses are only slowly feeling their way back to solid ground with such activities as the Eliot House seminars and the language tables...
...Representative J. Parnell Thomas knows that a good headline, come appropriation time, can do more than months of hard work. Last week, as his Un-American Activities Committee applied for a whopping, $200,000 allotment from the House, Thomas dug deep. What he fetched up was an old file on Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards. The bureau is the Government's chief research agency in physics, mathematics, chemistry and engineering...
...hundred and forty-nine men & women climbed solemnly out of the cars, holding black oilcloth bags. Heads down* to evade the gaze of curious bystanders, they took out the white sheets and sugar-sack masks of the Ku Klux Klan and hurriedly pulled them on. Then, in slow single file, they marched to the paved square before the town's dilapidated courthouse, where a crowd of 700 waited to applaud...
...Veterans Office staff, meanwhile, continued to comb its thousands of file cases in hopes of uncovering a conclusive lead. Although Monro holds several definite theories on the personality and background of the unknown crook who has used the name "Herbert R. Gross" hundreds of these files have been re-scrutinized thus...
August 1929-TIME'S morgue began to grow from a file labeled by Foreign News Researcher Cecilia Schwind "material which ought to be kept." TIME'S morgue is now a vast fact silo with a staff of 57 people...