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...there is one thing that even the most responsible students can not be trusted to do--control themselves in the presence of women during the evening. The Administration feels that when boys and girls get together, unchaperoned, in a dark, moonlit room, then wild passions and jungle instincts will prevail. Thus, although students may host women in their rooms from 4-7 p.m. every weekday, nights are another thing entirely. Even on Friday, women must be on their way by 8 p.m., which gives a normal person hardly enough time to digest dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and the Passions | 11/3/1959 | See Source »

There is no need for Billy to travel so far to learn about the "facts of life." If he were to spend one or two moonlit evenings spying on those who park along the lovers' lanes in his own Bible-belt state, he could collect enough material for several sermons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...this point, Kono's enemies recalled another Japanese proverb: "Nobody is more stupid than the man who allows his pot to be stolen on a moonlit night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Fall | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...length replied: "1,327,463." After that improbable exchange, NBC valiantly set out to prove that swing not only scintillates on TV but is newer, "bigger and better" than ever. Visually tricked out with color, old-fashioned microphones and vignettes of young love (a car radio in a moonlit convertible of the '30s), Swing swung down the nostalgic side of the street. Besides tootling what is still the sweetest clarinet this side of the '30s, Maestro Goodman husked It's Gotta Be This or That, was spelled by such other oldtimers as Trumpeter Harry James in King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...clear, moonlit night, the 9,786-ton Norwegian motorship Skaubryn plowed through the long swells of the Indian Ocean, six days south of Suez, bound for Australia with 1,088 passengers-mostly German and Maltese emigrants-and a crew of 200. At 8:45 p.m. trouble broke out in the engine room. A disconnected fuel line spurted a torrent of oil ?. onto red-hot exhaust pipes. Within seconds, the engine room was a coiling mass of flames. The engine-room crew were driven out before they could even shut off the spurting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INDIAN OCEAN: Men & the Sea | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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