Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...romantic illusions they might have about his U.S. trip. Said he: "You must not expect the Americans to solve our domestic problems for us. [No one] is going to keep the British lion as a pet." Nor should the Tories themselves be expected to turn on prosperity overnight. "Unpleasant" measures will be needed to deal with "stern and grim facts." The Conservatives, said Winston Churchill, will need "at least three years before anyone can judge fairly whether we have made things better or worse...
...Overnight parking near the University came one step nearer realization yesterday at the Cambridge City Council meeting. The Council received the long-awaited Traffic Board survey to determine how many cars can be parked around city parks, playgrounds, and totlots, and found that over 500 automobiles can be accommodated in areas around the University and Radcliffe property...
Furthermore, there may be some opposition to legalizing overnight parking, Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 intimated yesterday. Parking on the narrow streets around the Houses can seriously impede the work of fire engines and snow removers, he stated...
...fear of being boycotted by his source-magazines continued to haunt Wallace. If such a boycott were made, it would put him out of business overnight. In 1933, he decided on a drastic change in the Digest: it would start publishing its own original articles. There was another reason besides insurance against boycott. Says Editor Wallace: "We simply couldn't find enough articles of lasting interest and wide enough variety to fill the magazine...
...upswing began when she was talked into singing Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1949. Something happened there that changed her career overnight: she got her first laugh. And, says she: "The first time you step out onstage and get a big yak, you're lost for the rest of your life...