Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporting no storage space, only fifty-five percent showed any interest in a parking area twenty minutes away from the Houses. With a tacit understanding between police and students owning out-of-state vehicles, most men found it convenient to leave cars on the street overnight, secure in the knowledge that their tickets would not be prosecuted. This autumn, in an effort to recoup the imposing loss of 1500 unpaid fines, parking meters have been installed on every conceivable curb and Cambridge police have asked the University for a list of transient registrations. A great majority of the 900 college...
...Face. Last week, Moscow was barely recognizable even to those who knew it well. It seemed as though the entire Cosmetics Trust of the U.S.S.R. had gone to work, covering Moscow's wrinkled face with layers of magic makeup. Almost overnight the Bolshoi Theater turned a shade of blushing pink; other buildings were newly yellow, light green and blue. Reported a visitor: "It looks like an explosion in a paint factory...
Arrested and jugged overnight for drunkenness were John D. Spreckels III, 38, one of the playboys who share the Spreckels sugar fortune, and his curlylocked third wife, Lou Dell, 37. Heretofore John's fun-loving, free-swinging cousin, Adolph B. Jr.,*had tended to hog the limelight of the tabloids, but John and Lou Dell won through last week with a knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered...
...three-tenths of a second better than the world record set in 1934 by the U.S.'s Jack Medica. Supreme Command Allied Powers officials thought that Furuhashi's mark would be internationally recognized, making him the first postwar Japanese athlete to attract overseas attention. Overnight, Furuhashi became the toast of Tokyo. An earnest office-worker wrote to the Osaka newspaper Asahi: "Each of us must become a Furuhashi. Herein we may find a way to solve the economic crisis...
...demand that Hungary apologize for arresting Stephen T. Thuransky, a naturalized American who had told Hungarians what he thought of their Communist-run Government. Thuransky fought his way free of guards, found overnight sanctuary in the U.S. Legation. Next day, with his family, he was whisked out of Budapest by U.S. plane. His Russian exit clearance, obtained in three hours, was the fastest on record...