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Morning came, overcast above, brilliant in the streets. As early as 8 o'clock, Ottawa's people began to move toward the broad sweep of greensward in front of the Parliament Building. At first they came by twos and threes. As noon approached, every street leading to the plaza had become a solid, slow-moving river of humanity. Soon, as far as the eye could see. even the rooftops were crowded...
...avoid the long Cowie lines of student-officers, or to draw saved pay, or to have free nights of glorious liberty; or to miss calisthenics, marching and drill; to caper lightly over the tabooed greensward...
Blow One. On a flat greensward near Cincinnati sprawls the immense Lockland factory of Wright Aeronautical Corp., hailed in 1941 as the largest single-storied industrial plant in the world. The Truman Committee sniffed trouble there last January, reported it to Wright and the Army Air Forces. After four months, while Wright and the AAF found little wrong, Truman moved in, took 1,300 pages of testimony. Some points...
...Blue Bulldog and he's been biting at Johnnie Harvard's heels for nigh onto 60 years now, but there won't be a trace of senility in the Eli hound's growl when he rushes onto his home greensward to grapple with the Crimson this Saturday in the sixty-first clash of the ivied classic, which started in the same year that the "new dining-club at Memorial Hall" served its first lamb and mint jelly...
...with a common washroom down the hall, with showers and toilets and 20 tin basins and 20 tooth-mugs in a row. This recollection looked good to the President. Said he: Why not build such dormitories smack on Washington's beautiful Mall, a 13-block-long stretch of greensward in the heart of town. Charge the girls, say, 50 cents...