Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last resort in the overnight auto parking problem, Vice President Reynolds has told the Council through Chanler that the University has lined up concessionaires to supervise proposed parking lots in back of the Stadium and on Western Avenue...
Last week a Tokyo publisher brought out the result, a richly corned-up novel called Tokyo Romance. It had a U.S. correspondent for a hero, a Japanese movie queen for a heroine, a faint flavor of Madame Butterfly, a happy ending. Overnight, it became a bestseller: booksellers gobbled the first printing (100,000 copies), and yelled for more...
...with automobiles. The University has closed completely to undergraduates the old parking lot at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, which now lies at least 75 per cent vacant. At the same time, faced with protests from House residents (presumably non-ear owners) the University has disallowed overnight parking in such areas as the Eliot-Winthrop quadrangle, while the Cambridge police have inaugurated a full-scale campaign to enforce the fire law which prohibits parking on any municipal street between 2 and 4 A.M. For many students who must have automobiles in Cambridge for commuting and other purposes...
Other gripes are smaller: the bother of having to spend three hours a day commuting: the fact that taking books out overnight is next to impossible, since the train gets them in barely in time for a 9 o'clock; the small stoves which take intricate handling to get all parts of a meal ready at the same time...
Occasionally, like most debunkers, Author Evans loses his sense of humor (as in his stern "exposure" of the egotism of mother birds). But in the main The Natural History of Nonsense is fit to turn the hair of a woolly caterpillar white overnight...