Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Examination jitters have caused a serious outbreak of lawlessness among students in regard to returning books taken out overnight from House libraries. In view of the extra strain put on the House libraries from the unavailability of Boylston this semester, the situation has assumed such proportions that it threatens the continuance of the honor system used in House and all other University libraries...
...Almost overnight nearly all private automobiles disappeared from the streets and highways of the East. There was almost no place to go by car except to work; and many a home was cold for lack of oil. Outlying restaurants, dance halls, horse-and dog-racing tracks folded up; suburban movie-theater owners wondered what they would do next. In Boston many a school closed for a day for lack of heat; in New York City all public schools will close for a week next month...
...thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler who built a front line of defense against the Anti-Christ of Communism. . . . Think what it would mean to the world if Hitler surrendered to God. . . . Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last bewildering problem...
...British flyers won shoestring control of the air over Burma last week. It was not decisive, for the Japanese could, if necessary, double their air power in Burma overnight-something that General Sir Archibald Wavell and Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault each wished that he could...
Neat, round, goateed, vaguely bomb-shaped Sir Thomas Beecham plummeted into Brooklyn, announced: "I am not prepared to transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment. However, if there is anything I can do. . . ." But the British maestro whipped the year-old Brooklyn Symphony into a little demonstration of Mozart and Beethoven that stole the musical show from the neighboring New York Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski. "I prefer the smaller orchestras," sniffed Sir Thomas, "because they're better behaved. I find they're not possessed of this overweening self-satisfaction...