Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Clubs all over the country have planned parties for students returning home over Christmas vacation. Any students living in an area where entertainment is planned who does not receive an invitation to a party should contact the secretary of the club nearest his home...
...Hoyas wound up with a 9 and 16 record last year, but Shepard thinks they may be considerably improved. The nearest Harvard has come to playing Georgetown was last winter, when the teams held up both ends of a Boston double bill...
This restriction has approximately two supports. First, Houses nearest the Yard and afraid of becoming refueling stations for great hordes on their way from classes to labs. Second, permission of inter-House during midday would decrease House spirit, since there would be no need to eat any substantial meals in home quarters...
From this simple arrangement Mr. Bowles seeks to establish the lack of moral and social authors which permits the tides of life to push us all about one way or another. But the lurid quality of Kit's refuge in the "friendly carnal presence" of the nearest male makes the jump from the naturalistic to the symbolic level difficult...
...strapping man, and handsome as a juvenile lead, Clark Clifford was Harry Truman's nearest equivalent to a Harry Hopkins. He translated Harry Truman's ideas into bland, trudging prose, was the liberal wing's most effective advocate at the President...