Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial problems of the academic profession will not be wiped out overnight, or even over a period of years. Teaching will never be as lucrative as law, medicine, or business. But something must be done to maintain the quality of the country's education. The best place to start, it seems, is at the source: the graduate schools...
...Together involves the efforts of a precious 29-year-old fop to rid himself of his mother's apron strings by sharing his bed with her attractive nurse. To varying degrees, the rest of his family approves of his venture, and forms a cheering section outside his bedroom door. Overnight a remarkable change takes place: by dawn the young man has shed his drab finales and pale timidity for a West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places would hardly do credit to a reform school stag...
After he took his seat in the House of Lords and, at 24, published Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (poetic impressions of a Continental journey), Byron became overnight Britain's most talked-of poet...
...early for a canter along the bridle paths of Rock Creek Park. After days of partying, the Shah and his retinue (14 persons altogether) packed their bags (95 pieces, totaling 5,000 Ibs.) and took off for San Francisco. This week Their Majesties will drive to Los Angeles, stopping overnight in a motel, arriving in time for Christmas, a Hollywood tour and the Rose Bowl game...
...Dudley from Apley is more a mental block than a real one, the scarcity of space already looms as a definite inconvenience. Apley's Bunk Room has enough beds for only ten men, which may well fall short of the usual exam period desire for some kind of overnight accommodations. "It seems like I spent more time going home and coming back than studying last year," one sophomore complained...