Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, you all remember how we won the Columbia game. We moved up into national prominence overnight. It always makes me laugh when I think that everyone forgot to listen to Coach Valpey's words: "We're far from being a team yet." The most significant single factor towards helping the Crimson in that opening game was discovery of a young man named Phil Isenberg, a backer...
...otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the poundings and stampings of the huge audience, and the greans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion...
...darkest hour, the fall of Mukden, after the government's stubborn attempt to stay in Manchuria, gravely affected public confidence in the regime. Economic pressure forced the government at week's end to give up its price-control program as a failure, unfreeze price and wage ceilings. Overnight Shanghai prices increased four to five times. The new gold yuan (TIME, Aug. 30) had started on the same giddy spiral as the old Chinese national dollar...
...stability in Europe which assures peace." General Clay did not try to guess when that time would come. But last week he thought he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Said he: "There is no easy road to lasting peace. It cannot come overnight. Nor can it be obtained by written agreements left to be interpreted by each participant in his own way. It can only come about when the free peoples of the world are strong and thus able to defend their own freedoms; and that day is approaching rapidly...
Cambridge Police have made good their threats to tow away cars parked overnight on city streets. For three weeks, owners of a few favored garages have been able to contemplate upwards of $100 a week in towing fees pried from unhappy students. At the same time, University police have been distributing tickets and fines with their usual consistency; so student drivers have been forced to shuttle their vehicles from one spot to another, and have usually would up with some sort of a summons for their troubles...