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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Valentines mean love and kisses to most people, but Miss Brick Jones, who tends the aisle section of the Coop's Valentine Department, just wishes Harvard men would polish their manners a bit for the occasion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Stampede for Billet-Doux | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

...leader who happens along, they lower their heads, and plow blindly ahead, looking up only when their soles scrape the far curb. At the opposite extreme from the Cautious Upperclassman, the heedless flying wedge dares any motorist to watch out, with the result that a few fenders barely miss indentation. And every so often, of course, a man is knocked down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hop, Skip, and Hope | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

...Druten, carried by the nearby Johnston office, had to change his tactics. Instead of inexorably propelling Parker and Reagan into bed, he has to keep them out of it. When Reagan, a buck-sergeant on week-end furlough, retires on Miss Parker's living room couch, the camera carefully records the tightly closed bedroom door that separates the lovers. In the play, the curtain fell as the two embraced. But the idea is the same and most people will probably catch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

Following Cater's statement to the committee, Kimball quoted the Council's resolution against the Bill. Miss Tinker pointed out that students from all over the earth come to Cambridge because it is one of the world's greatest educational centers and that "any proposal like the Barnes Bill would be detrimental to the free flow of thought that should characterize great institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Witnesses Bombard Barnes Bill at Final Hearing | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...seems this Mardi Gras (Shrova Tuesday to you) came over from France in the old days, and now all kinds of parades, Nalls ("rety formal" says Miss Fennsbaker), and singing in the strects starts happening as early as Christmas time. The whole thing's to keep you going throught Lent, which starts today-Ash Wednesday-and everyone in New Orleans had to immask at tonight last night and head for church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flesh and Fantasy . . . | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

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