Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About three weeks of grace will be given to car owners while they accustom themselves to the new-fangled contraptions before Cambridge police start tagging violators of the new traffic laws. After that period, motorists will pay five dollars a minute for their illegal parking if caught...
...almost before the reader knows it, years & years have passed and Chloe is drifting to her death in Latin America, having made derelict love to all comers, including an Argentine tenor, a Nicaraguan politico and a Grace Line purser. Readers of drugstore novels, as soon as they spot the heroine's name, will know this is for them; for Chloe is to this season's novels and soap operas what Sandra and Brenda were to the trash of previous years...
Harvard men have such esthetic musical tastes." From the lips of Grace Lyons at McKenna's--and it could just as well have been heard at Briggs and Briggs--the phrase was a complaint. But just a little altered, it might by a shy boast of the Music Department, which rates partial credit for a most astounding revolution in Cantabridgian taste...
...student suggestions, a valuable check on teaching methods. But with the trial run almost over and student opinion in favor of the scheme, plans are already afoot for larger courses. The enrollment restrictions will be lifted on all coming Humanities classes and seven new upper-group courses will grace the fall catalogue, running from Fine Arts to Far-Eastern Civilizations...
Another riot occurred later, when somebody referred, in the course of saying grace, to this "fresh instance of bounty" in the midst of what was described as the "ancient and fish like smell" of University Hall. The discontinuation of grace allegedly can be traced to the resulting disturbance. And, beyond doubt, it was just this attitude on the part of the student body that precipitated the final exit of overcooked ducks from University Hall, and the entrance of deans...