Word: halloween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halloween spirit will be at a low ebb this Friday when local urchins make their rounds without benefit of lighted jack-o-lanterns. Chances of their being permitted seem slight, police said...
Whether it be feeding rats, rigging booby traps for Halloween prowlers, or just plain clerical work, the Employment office in Weld Hall has a student...
Among the jobs listed as references one student told of laying a fool-proof system of trip wires on the grounds of a Brattle Street home for an old lady who was tired of losing her front gate every Halloween to Cambridge youngsters...
Other activities of the organization include maintaining a lending library for textbooks currently in use, and a Speakers' Committee which furnishes student speakers and entertainers for clubs and parties throughout the metropolitan area. The latter committee was especially active at Halloween when it provided several entertainers and magicians for holiday parties...
Though it was high time for frost, temperatures stood at August levels from the Great Lakes to the Eastern seaboard. Manhattan small fry celebrated the hottest Halloween on record (81°) by donning masks-and going naked on the beach (see cut). As the hot spell wore on, thermometers registered highs of 84 in Washington, 82 in Philadelphia, 81 in Boston, 77 in Chicago, 85 in Memphis. Midwestern farmers mopped their foreheads and cursed the humidity which was delaying the corn harvest. Mississippians sighed and put off their hog killing. Thousands of city folk got out their lawn mowers...