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Grays Hall and the Yard may have booked a little decrepit after the manicured grounds of Indiana State, Smith, and Vassar. Individual bathrooms, two-room suites, and unrestricted hours made up for that, however. No matter how long you had to flick lights for a Yard Cop, it was better than facing an irate house mother at 3 o'clock in the morning...
...whom Destiny might flick at any moment, the western world knew almost nothing. Most people in the U.S. had never heard his name. Yet he was a man who had devoted all his latter years to a scheme of Asian empire which touched the Russians and the Chinese first of all, but in the close-knit world of 1942 mattered enormously to the U.S. as well. He was a short and flabby man of 57, with protruding cheekbones and a mummy-like skin, who had said of himself: "I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve...
With a now-it-can-be-told flick of the typewriter, Chicago Daily Newsman Leland Stowe thus began a sensational dispatch on the No. 1 bottleneck of Allied world strategy...
...ancient conveyance, in which the heroine of Warner Brothers' new Harvard flick will be drawn in state to the Advocate chambers at Bow and Plympton Streets by hordes of lucky candidates, is the same as that in which Anna Held and Barbara Hutton were escorted to literary "teas...
...computed before normal taxes. (Previous law specified the reverse.) Since excess-profits taxes are 45 to 150% heavier than the normal taxes, putting them first means that the bulk of a corporation's income is hit by the higher rate, the remainder by the lower. By this flick of the wrist, the U.S. will get 3 to 15% more revenue than before...