Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army gave us horses to ride on farther east. In the cold first hour after dawn we passed the first corpse-a woman dead on the road. She must have been there at least overnight...
Neither Rome nor the Pierian Sodality, alias the Harvard Orchestral Society, was built overnight. At least, that's what Milton Van Dyke, the Secretary, sagely remarked the other day when the called attention to the fact that this year marked the 135th anniversary of the Orchestra...
When Leon Henderson headed the Office of Price Administration, he fought hard against sprung rationing-rationing of a single commodity announced overnight without suitable preparation of the public. Last week, as buyers smarting under the sudden shoe rationing order rushed to buy clothes for fear of an unexpected new order by the Government, the wisdom of Leon Henderson's position became apparent...
...mother of five. Before a stony-faced committee she argued that if women are good enough to serve in war, they are good enough for juries. Male ridicule had beaten the proposal in previous years. ("Imagine a woman of Cleopatra's type being locked up with eleven men overnight.") Finally the wisecracks came. Roared a chivalrous lawyer...
Last Sunday a total of 600 books were taken out overnight from the seven House libraries; by 11 o'clock Monday morning 86 of them had not been returned. Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of the College, has pointed out that in most other colleges a stinging fine awaits such offenders, and he fears that unless the present situation is remedied similar penal measures may replace the lenient black-list process...