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...Traffic Jam. Each visitor was provided with a car, and for a while, chauffeured limousines were jammed three-deep for five blocks on the street leading to the Foreign Office, as diplomats waited to present credentials...
...while, he lived with his married sister Beth, but found it difficult to compose while Beth's children played trains under his feet, or left sticky traces of jam on the piano. Then he and Librettist Slater moved to Snape in Suffolk, to a windmill which Britten had remodeled as a house. There they plunged into Peter Grimes. Slater would work up in a bedroom, and shout down to Benjy, lolling on the grass, "How do you like this line?" They took long walks over the bleak Suffolk downs, saying nothing to each other, each busy with...
Speaking before a jam-packed audience in the Union, the journalists said that newspaper morgers are greatly decreasing job opportunities and that the average linotypist is now earning more than the average reporter...
...Torchlights. This was not all. Next week all of New Orleans will quit work, put on a-million dollars' worth of costumes, and spill noisily into the streets. There will be 13 parades with bands, torchlights, and scores of magnificent floats. On Carnival Day a million people will jam along Canal Street, jostle, throw confetti, sing, and, quite possibly, get more than slightly tight...
...only thus can the House Plan operate in the manner in which it was intended; only thus can Harvard "combine the variety of educational offerings possible only in a university with many of the social advantages of a small college." If the University were to keep on at its jam-packed 12,000 man level, the new lecture halls, dormitories, and laboratories that would soon be needed would involve immense capital expenditures. And all the various faculties would have to be enlarged, teaching methods in some of the graduate schools might even have to be revised. So a return...