Word: papers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...putting down an amount from 25 cents to five dollars the students stands a chance to win up to $1,000 for picking ten winners. However according to the BU paper it's not quite that easy. "Most of the games given you to choose from rank as the most important of the week, but at least two or three games are thrown in as ringers. These involve teams which are not too well known...
...fine state of preservation also results from the handmade linen paper on which it was printed. Experts of the Harvard University Press say that the paper will not fade from its original white for at least another 500 years. Other Gutenberg Bibles, printed on more expensive vellum, have already darkened considerably. The "paper" of the latter is effected by the animal oil in the sheepskin which composes vellum...
...generals permitted the prosecution wide latitude. Much testimony was based on opinion and hearsay, two or three times removed. The prosecution showed a U.S. -propaganda film, Orders from Tokyo, in which a G.I. pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of a slain Japanese soldier, while the soundtrack intoned: "Orders from Tokyo. We have discovered the secret orders to destroy Manila." In fact, no such orders were ever found, as the defense demonstrated...
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, accustomed over recent months to editorial broadsides in the Soviet press, became the target of a gossip item in Moscow's Literary Gazette. The paper reported that Tito was in the clutches of an alluring "American spy"-sleek, slinky-eyed Zinka Milanov, 43, onetime Metropolitan Opera star and since 1947 the wife of Ljubomir Ilic, one of Tito's generals. Pooh-poohed Zinka from Belgrade: "It's just silly...
...students can find no causes for leaving out the 10 percent. As the Princeton pointed out following last spring's bicker, in a body of young men capable of gaining admission to Princeton "there is no such animal as a socially undesirable student." To solve the situation, the paper called for "more initiative from the men on Prospect Street," the same sort of initiative that got the whole system rolling seventy years...