Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk punctuated by firecrackers, Valpey implored students for support. "Gentlemen of Harvard," he said, "it will be tough if you treat the team lightly. And if you should sit and criticize during the week, it will be awfully tough. We're in a tough league, and we need cheers...
With its first big job finished, the Society last night announced plans to continue its public service whenever the need arose. "Our big job in the winter will be to clear snow from Plympton Street and other congested reads," Mason said. He also hinted at plans to rent a rowboat and ferry pedestrians from Cambridge to Boston near the site of the closed Harvard Bridge...
...Gray announced a new instruction, to the effect that if any vet intends to change from one general field of studies to another, he can continue to get GI Bill of Rights benefits only after the VA's advice and guidance service has determined the student's aptitude or need for the change...
Students owning ears in the Cambridge area might just as well sell their jalopies and buy unicycles. Unicycles don't need much parking space at night. Cars do. And in a week the Cambridge police force starts its annual campaign against overnight parking. Carowners have that long to sign up with the high-priced garages and parking lots around the Square; then the men in blue uniforms move in to tag the remaining cars and have them towed away...
...trouble comes from an old, old statute on the Cambridge books which forbids parking after 2 a.m. in the morning. The Police Department defends the statute on the grounds that cars on the street at night are a hazard to the Fire Department, claiming that the firemen need plenty of room to maneuver their big equipment. But the fire department has pointed out that it can get its hook and ladders through any streets where parkers obey the daytime parking signs. The only possible justification for the ordinance is thus an imaginary one, yet the law stands...