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...extra fillip was added to the issue, however, when it was disclosed that Sproul is scheduled to leave for the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia on June 15. The convention does not begin until June 21, and Sproul denied that his convention plans had any influence in the decision to move up the commencement program...
Recipe. In St. Helens, Lancashire, Soft-Drink Merchant James P. Forrester was fined ?60 and costs for dispensing cocktails which proved to contain a fillip of chloroform...
...bizarre present that found favor in 1946 was a sequence of fourteen sonnets lettered in Old English, and illuminated, on a sheet of parchment. What gave a fillip to the toil that went into the manufacture of the gift was the fact that each sonnet described an outing or incident the Middlebury giver had shared with the Harvard recipient...
...English 170d, and History 62b (the best American history course offered at Harvard, in the almost unanimous opinion of students in the field). Group IV finds the first undergraduate poetry course to be offered in at least two years competing with Professor Schlesinger's History 63. As an added fillip, Fine Arts 7f, a survey course in American painting, completes the fatal trilogy in Group IV. To fill the serious gap in American literature offerings, Professor Murdock is repeating his course on the American novel in the nineteenth century, English 170c. But because it has been relegated to Group XIII...
...Never Left Home (1,620,000 copies, mostly to relatives), Bob Hope has written another book. It is called So This Is Peace, and it deals, off the bottom of the deck, with Reconversion." At the bottom of the ad was what seemed to be an added fillip in the same joking vein: "Published by the Hope Corporation...