Word: homed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Clubs all over the country have planned parties for students returning home over Christmas vacation. Any students living in an area where entertainment is planned who does not receive an invitation to a party should contact the secretary of the club nearest his home...
...stood up, shoved into his coat. It would be a good idea to check on the books he'd have to take home--he might as well spend the vacation studying, for with all the obnoxious children underfoot at home he would need some excuse to get away...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. noon, CBS). Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again...
...Toledo with his darkly lovely Jewish mistress. The love story lasted for seven years, and then the mistress was poisoned by Eleanor's agents. Alfonso, gnawed by both a guilty conscience and a dark suspicion that he was next on the poisoners' list, went home to Eleanor and atonement. Last week, almost 800 years later, the fruits of Alfonso's atonement were providing Spanish archeologists and medieval experts with one of their richest finds in years...
...Says he: "It just keeps customers away from what they want to buy." Goods should be placed on easy-to-reach shelves. Complicated displays should be abandoned: "Too many tricky piles of cans say 'Don't touch me' when they should be saying 'Take me home.' " Stores should be painted up and lit up. A dingy little store, slipping into bankruptcy in a Chicago suburb, quadrupled its gross to $8,000 a week when it installed new lights and smart fixtures. Window displays should be cut down or eliminated; the windows should be clear...