Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never underestimate the power of bird lovers. Last week the management of Manhattan's 1,472-ft. Empire State Building announced that out of respect for migrating birds and the National Audubon Society, it has doused the building's stationary beacon, and will keep it doused until Nov. 1, when most of the feathered friends are safe in their winter resorts...
...last Thursday's article on the history of maids at the College, the following sentence, based on a Nov. 26, 1952, CRIMSON report of a contest for each House's favorite maid, appeared: "Mrs. Walsh from Lowell was chosen because, among other things, she built bookshelves and 'never took the boys' liquor without asking first...
...researcher failed to note that this statement was completely retracted, in the CRIMSON of Nov. 28, 1952, by the three Lowell students. The CRIMSON regrets reprinting the false description of Mrs. Walsh, and adds that the corrected entry read: "It was a great pleasure to know Mrs. Walsh...
...biggest newcomer, Giant Step (Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.), will broaden the financial horizon for young people (ages 7-17) with vast knowledge. Top prize: a four-year scholarship to a college of the contestant's choice and, as a plum for graduating seniors, a junket around the world...
...Bolsheviks won this game of chess by a fool's mate. The fools, of one sort or another, were the gullible men of the Western embassies. In the evening of Nov. 7, 1917, the Czar's Winter Palace was "stormed"-by the back door. Kennan sardonically notes, for, amid the confusion and vacillation of the defenders, someone had inadvertently left the back door open. At the time, British Ambassador Sir George Buchanan was gloomily watching artillery from the River Neva (blanks from the Russian cruiser Aurora, usually credited with a main role in the palace's capture...