Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last week, the Texas University registrar opened the doors of the new interim "law school," stalked in to await students. A steady stream of University officials marched in after him, and a group of curious Texans clustered in the corridor to see what would happen. Only one prospective student showed up, and he did not register...
...name is Red, a 1½-year-old Irish setter, out for his first real hunt. I had him out in the fall of 1945 when he was six months old. Then the birds gave him the runaround. ... He wasn't going to have that happen again. The open season of 1946 arrived, with Red a year older and a bit wiser, but still a pup. The opening day my three partners, Stan, Morey, Jim and myself gave...
...Adams had just got the news: the Supreme Court had decided that his boss, John L. Lewis, was in contempt of court. Mr. Adams and the rest of the U.S. could only try to divine, with or without tea leaves, what would happen next...
...goose. Indignant letters poured into the state's newspapers. The S.P.C.A. asked that a warrant be drawn up, charging Edward O'Brien, president of the club, with cruelty to animals. O'Brien apologized: "We are as sorry as possible. . . . Nothing of this kind will ever happen again...
...product educationally of Melrose High, M.I.T., and the Harvard Graduate School, Leonard knows the business of examinations from all points of view. The ideal proctorial attitude was expressed in a statement of his recently: "Though it doesn't happen very often, every time a fellow here cribs, we want to be sure that our system couldn't have prevented...