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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not find it either. Then a Polish soldier came over to help out with a match. But the match burned down before they found the coin. The soldier muttered, then fished a wad of German bills out of his pocket. He took a large, 20-mark note ($2), lit it, found the 50-pfennig piece, and with a smile handed it to the woman. The smoldering remains of his 20 marks he tossed out the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rate of Exchange | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Back to Their Shack. But after a few months Gil and Maggie ran away from the farm and lit out for their shack on Half Moon. An alarm was sounded, but Abe Stern, police chief of Ramapo township, didn't do anything about it. "Gil and Maggie will make out all right," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: 55 Minutes from Broadway | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Pigeons," snarled George as two birds lit ten feet in front of him. "Them damn pigeons will have this platform all messed up in no time." He spat, forcefully, on the new grass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nails, Not Tradition, Cement Commencement Site in Yard | 5/24/1947 | See Source »

Once out of the office, Vag looked through his pockets for a lead on what to do next. Nothing but a pack of cigarettes, so he lit one and started to Widener, thinking vaguely of a book he'd been trying to get for three weeks; it was still on reserve for a fall term course, last time he'd tried. The sun was hot through his wool jacket, and the new grass was coming softly through the raked brown earth. The steps of Widener were wide and white, he thought, starting up--in all the years, though, he hadn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

Dudley Hall, center for the College's 380 commuters, boasts a library including Webster's Dictionary, a few tired periodicals, and a copy of "Campaigning for Christ"--a collection which adds up to about two pages per member. Commuters are forced to buck Widener's waiting lit, its frightful lighting system and depressing atmosphere in order to read many widely used volumes which residents can peruse in the comfort of House libraries. If commuters wish to check books out overnight they are put to the further inconvenience of remaining at Widener or Boylston until nine o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What, No Books? | 5/8/1947 | See Source »

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