Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much you think you are prepared for the Texas story by what you have heard and read, you are astonished by what you see. In a week in Texas, we heard not one real doubt of the future, no talk of recession. Businessman after businessman used the phrase free enterprise without putting quotes around it with their eyes. Texans are spending money as if they believed in free enterprise, as in fact they obviously...
...afternoon will feature, besides the out-of-season race complete with a Marryin' Sam at the finish line, what is described as a "Schmoo Hunt--finders keepers," hiking--"a free schmoo for every blister," a tug of war with Wellesleyites, a softball game with Simmons girls, sack races, and a 75 cent picnic supper, followed by a "songfest...
...Class of 1949 has already announced that after the daylight ceremonies at which the Class Poet, Oratory, Ivy Orator, Odist, and Chorister offer their talents, a "Class Night" in Memorial Hall will be staged. This activity will be "something like a Freshman smoker," Class officials say, with free beer and entertainment by the Class. But any informal gathering of seniors on Class Day, especially with the accompaniment of a beverage, will undoubtedly have more of a kinship to was sails of the past than to a Freshman smoker. It remains to be seen, of course, whether or not this projected...
What Valpey said at the Writers' Free Lunch was more encouraging. At least it was couched in a series of maybes and hopeful phrases--"We're lucky to be playing them first. Our chances of winning so early in the season will depend on experience and organization. They've got better personnel than we do." What Art implied was that later in the schedule we probably couldn't touch them; if his team is up for its opener, we might come through...
Glamor, however, is not a constant feature of the Key's work. Most of the jobs are routine, and are rewarded at best by the gratitude of the visitors or a free pass to the game. It is a tribute to the enthusiasm of the candidates and members this year that the Key has done the work so well...