Word: lines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only have all the cab companies lost money, according to Fligg, but the abolition of the old stands has created such a demand for space in the Lehman Hall line that "more than ten drivers have received tickets for double-parking at the end of the line in the past few days...
Funny thing about jayvee football--you spend, on the average, half your practice time each week learning and executing other teams' offensive and defensive tactics. One day you run, say, the Cornell offense against a punishing varsity line; the next day you're the Army defense trying to keep the varsity's offense in check...
...line, McCabe has Art Rohn and Al Sawyer, right ends; Stan Miller and Peter Hill, tackles; Hansen and John Harding, guards; Hob Balzer and Dave Waring, centers; Lew Gordon and Carl Bazer, left guards; Bob Shaw and Bob Thompson, left tackles; Alex Serglenko, George Emmons, Pete Leavitt, left ends...
...last line of the above paragraph might seem to indicate that Mr. Behrman has some thesis or other hiding behind the skirts of his winking Muse, but such is not the case. The plot of "I Know My Love" offers about as much opportunity for character-study as an hour with the old family album. What dimension the Chanler family has is due mainly to the embellishments given it by the actors...
...passengers kept themselves well amused. The ships had their bars and canteens, and since a ship at sea constitutes a sort of neutral no-man's-land, liquor and such comes tax free. Needless to say, it flowed freely. The foreign lines were more than happy to encourage the Americans to spend their money, especially when they spent dollars. The Dutch Line went so far as to mint some special ships money, script and coin, to keep the students from spending Dutch guilder...