Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon. "There isn't much happening around here in the morning. I used to open up quite a bit in the morning, but the only person who came to see me then was T. S. Eliot's sister-in-law." Afternoons, however, the Grolier Book Shop becomes a community haven and meeting place. Last year, a girl working on a novel used the back room of his shop. Standing on Gordon's bookshelves are the drawings and water-colors of whatever unknown artist he happens to be be-friending. Some of his customers have keys themselves...
...during the period of Soviet domination, the church retains "tremendous popularity," Brzezinski continued. Churches are always overcrowded, even with the building of new ones since the end of the war. In addition, the church leadership has reached its highest level ever, because during the repression the church became the haven for many intellectuals...
...first Yale Daily News of the season arrived the other day, full of what it called "radical changes" around New Haven. We noted that used furniture entrepreneurs can no longer peddle their wares to unsuspecting freshmen. More important to growing Yalies, we read that the University is to allow them to drink all the milk they can hold. And then, we were surprised to learn that Yale has decided to make public the approximate number of students who will register this fall, as compared with the number who really did so last year...
...this was more news than has come out of New Haven for many a month, and we were prepared to believe that Yale was really coming around to some wise decisions. Then we were struck by the most radical of all changes, which is that henceforth Yalies must wear coats and ties to all meals. That was somewhat puzzling because we had the impression that Yalies--at least the ones we know--always looked like mannekins in a J. Press window. Evidently, however, there are those who do not appreciate the value of conservative tailoring, and the administration decided...
...minors, sent him to the mound, and saw this young fellow's first three pitches blasted from the park. Comiskey went out to the catcher and asked: 'What's he got on the ball?' The catcher answered: 'I don't know. I haven't caught...