Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday morning by Floyd Stahl and "Whitey" Fuller, former Dartmouth press agent who handles publicity for the Amherst station. The naval trainees have all been graduated from the Amherst school, but they are now marking time before reporting for further study to Chapel Hill, N. C. The boys, who haven't played any formal games this year, asked for a contest before going South, and the Harvard battle was put through...
...Regimental Dance on the twenty-sixth at the Copley Plaza, because the hue and cry of the first few days, "Say, where can I get myself a date?" has been changed to, "I've gotta date and she has a friend that wants to go ..." What! You haven't got yours? Well, see any E man for particulars...
...word "prang," as applied to crashing, is strictly limited. I haven't heard it used for two or three years, but mention of crashes and crashing leads me to a mild rebuke. No mention of our slanguage is complete without mention of our most famous phrasing, and that is the expression "gone for a Burton." When anything or anybody is through for good, it or he is said to have "gone for a Burton." ... If one of your "oppos" (universal term for buddies) is killed, you don't say he was killed, you just say, "Poor...
However (and it doesn't seem possible) everyone's spirits are remarkably high. This may in part be due to the fact that we are still "civilians" (haven't been issued our uniforms yet), and hence don't have fatigue details or KP. That time will soon come, I fear...
...somewhere," he muttered, just to see how it sounded. Where would it be, he wondered. Back in Cambridge? Maybe. Haven't thought much about it, Vag said under his breath. Family always wanted me to have that degree. And I only need three more courses. But it's going to be different afterwards. And I'll be different. Why the hell come back anyway. Right now I just want to get out of this ghost town. Hope the draft board gets me before exams. . . . And if I came back it would only be an escape. And I'd be bored...