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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only five minutes more was the officially recognized time limit for Radcliffe girls to entertain late-returning male-escorts within their dormitories--until last Monday night. But in a mass meeting two nights ago at Agassiz Hall, with Dean Mildred P. Sherman presiding, "keep the wolf at the door" was ratified by the entire student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Dean Quashes 'Degenerated' Good-Nights, Moves Adieux Outside | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...chilling Indian weather to hear the American astronomer predict what a Newsweek correspondent called "a great intellectual awakening" in India. "I have never spoken," said Professor Shapley, "to a more responsive, alert, and eager audience. India is one of the hopes for the world. The sky is the limit for scientific research in India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Detects 'Hope of World' in India's New Intellectual Awakening | 2/8/1947 | See Source »

...appears in print is itself a distillation of scores of stories offered, examined, weighed, and found wanting-for any one of a number of reasons. Obviously, since TIME is designed to give its readers the significant news of the week in the fewest possible reading hours, there is a limit to the amount of words readers can be expected to read.* Believed to be dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Ceiling (Jan.). In Tokyo, ricksha boys and pedestrians sprinted their damnedest to comply with U.S. 35-m.p.h. speed-limit signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Some old fool up here has the same idea, and may succeed in shortening our grouse season by two weeks, next legislature. . . . We could have got our limit many times over. Hurricane blowdown full of them. So thick that cats, owls, fox, etc., are getting many more than hunters. We've seen eight in one tree this season, never went out a day without flushing at least 20 in short time. No apples this year, consequently all birds in thick woods, feeding on thornapples, hornbeam buds, and ground seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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