Word: late-hour
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Freshmen will have a late-hour study room in Memorial Hall basement immediately after Christmas Vacation, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
Buck said the basement study room, originally intended for Radcliffe students, will be used on an "emergency basis" until June. In the meantime, Buck said he hopes library and administrative officials can arrive at a permanent solution to the freshman late-hour study problem...
Three times in U.S. history a presidential candidate has won a plurality of the popular vote only to lose the election.* Reason: the archaic electoral-college system, an unhappy late-hour compromise device adopted when the Constitution was written and the subject of steady fire ever since. Last week, by a bipartisan majority of 64 to 27, the Senate approved a proposed constitutional amendment which would change all that. It would divide the electoral votes of each state according to the popular vote each candidate polled...
...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever...