Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor of Boston, Curley is forever at words points with the Boston Finance Commission. The Commission (or the Fin Com as it is most commonly called) is a five-man board appointed by the governor to keep a constant eye on the city's financial condition. Since the state government was Republican during most of Curley's administration, the Fin Com was generally very hostile to him; even during his first administration when the late Senator David I. Walsh, a democrat, was governor, the members of the Fin Com bitterly fought Curley's spending. But, for all their efforts...
Chances are reasonably good that one team will emerge with its first victory after five unsuccessful starts apiece. There has been just one tie since the series started--the only game in which both teams failed to score. Harvard has won the last three games in the series but the margin of victory was just one touchdown in each ease...
...help clear up the situation, the legislature limited new municipalities to a choice of five kinds of charters, labeling the types Plans A, B, C, D and E. Under the 1938 law already incorporated cities could change their charter to one of these by ballot, if they wished. Only Boston, which has a government similar to that outlined in Plan B was denied this privilege...
...Yearbook again this year. Four hundred subscription sales piled up last week will give the staff sufficient backing to begin work, Susan Evans '50, editor-in-chief, announced yesterday. Jays Publishing Co., publishers of the yearbook, have guaranteed a minimum book of 96 pages of features and photographs for five dollars, she reported...
...sonatas of Beethoven could pack Sanders Theater, but pack it did Wednesday night. An audience so large that many were standing along the back walls heard Bruce Simonds, dean of the Yale Music School, and George Brown, a member of that school's faculty, play three of Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello and 12 Variations on a Theme by Mozart...