Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sergeant Toomey of the University police intimated last night that precautions will be taken against any possible raids by a vanguard of Cornell students on the holiday tomorrow or later in the week. While he would not reveal what preparations were being made and admitted that "we catch them (invaders) quite often but not always" Toomey, who for many years has been the traditional "yard cop," added, "but it's easy to dress agents in plain clothes, you know...
...first sunny day after the second Sunday in October has long been celebrated in Northampton as "Mountain Day." The traditional holiday was instituted by Smith authorities to give the students a chance to travel through the country side for a look at the fall collage. Through the years, however, Smith girls have perfected to spend such as Cambridge and New Haven...
...back only part way. "They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...
Kiski's 200 students no longer go from French to history to geometry and back again each day. For nine weeks, one group of students takes nothing but English. Then, after a four-day holiday, the group may begin nine weeks of mathematics, then a language, then history or science. Students and teachers both seem to like the new schedule. Dismissals for scholastic failure have dropped from 15 a year to zero and there is no sign at all that students are bored by their nine-week stretches. "You'd be surprised," says Clark. "For most of them...
Since the start of the Korean war, the stock market has become trigger-sensitive to news from Washington. Last week the market was so ticklish that it reacted to news before traders knew what the news was. In the two days following the Fourth of July holiday, the Dow-Jones industrial average had chalked up a tidy rise of 2.5 points to 210.85. But shortly after 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon, the news tickers in brokerage offices flashed a cryptic message from Washington: the President would make an important announcement at 3 o'clock (i.e., after...