Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quota which Phillips Brooks House set for the inter-House competition was passed early in the drive, and the mark finally reached was $14,562. The Minute Man Flag for most undergraduate participation was won by Lowell, with 90 per cent, while Adams was one per cent behind, and Dunster, the early leader, fell way below the national average with 55 per cent...
Harvard's section of the drive was led by Bertram A. Knight of P.B.H., who presented the Minute Man Flag at Lowell House Wednesday night, while the House committees were headed by Arthur A. Hartman, Stephen D. Becker, and William L. Spront for Lowell, Adams, and Dunster respectively...
...beyond last week's total, and House Committee leaders hope to quintuple the original quota of $1,000 per House. Lowell House claims 90 per cent participation and Adams 87 per cent. The House with the highest percentage of participation will be awarded the Minute Man Flag by PBH vice-president Bertram A. Knight tomorrow night after today's returns have been tabulated. The Master of the winning House will attend the presentation dinner...
...will U.S. shipowners meet air transport's bid for passenger business? Barred from flying planes of their own, and forced to wait months while troopships are converted to passenger liners, the ship operators' postwar outlook for passenger business is dismal. For many foreign-flag ship operators will probably be permitted by their governments to establish their own air service...
...once ridiculous, pitiful and a national hero. As he shows up in his splendid new uniform, flashbulbed, bewildered, happy, homely, still unaware of what is in store for him, he receives the brass-band salute aptly paraphrased as "AND the MONkey wrapped his TAIL around the FLAG POLE...