Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cambridge and Harvard are not difficult to navigate once knows the way around. At the start, however, the University and its surroundings may seem rather hit or miss. For that reason the accompanying map and its explanation below can be of service in first finding where's what...
...other 11 representatives from Harvard included Dr. Annie J. Cannon, committee on stellar spectra; Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit, committee on meteors and related problems; Miss Jenka Mohr, committee on nebulae and star clusters; and Dr. Theodore E. Sterne, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Dr. Leo Goldberg, Miss Henrietta Swope, Miss Constance Boyd, Mrs. R. Newton Mayall, Miss Rebecca Jones, and James G. Baker...
...department store, she is sent to Plymouth University on a semiprofessional basis as a mannequin to promote the sales of winter sportswear. This device supplies most of the story motivation in My Lucky Star, since the Henie wardrobe arouses the jealousy of her less fortunate classmates. It also permits Miss Henie to model a collection of cold-weather creations which female cinemaddicts are likely to find even more eye-worthy than the tricks Miss Henie executes while wearing them. Best of the latter is an Alice in Wonderland ballet...
...Barkeep Barry answered the questions, signed off with an unsolicited query of his own. Said he: "I want to ask Marie Vicknair up in Reserve, La. if she will marry me. I didn't have the nerve to ask her face to face." At week's end Miss Vicknair told station WWL and bashful Barman Barry that she would give them an answer only after she had had time to think it over...
...when his old friends were dead and he was growing blind, are as sharp as anything he wrote. "I am in a new society and a new world which is more wild and madder by far than the old one . . . and the only difference is that I terribly miss your father's conversation and his dry champagne. . . . We ordinary people in Washington are no longer permitted to have it. The world is improved! We kill each other by the hundred thousand, without remorse, but "we are denied our dry champagne. ... I am sorry for the Germans; I am sorry...