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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's Administration took action last week to remedy complaints from residents of 20 Walker st. which had been besieging the College during the past month...
Atomic dust clouds may have caused the recurrent ice ages in the past, Donald H. Menzel, Professor of Astrophysics, reported Saturday to the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences...
...Winter of 1948-49 will not be as cold on the whole as the winter just past. However .. . there will be frequent storms of rain and sleet as well as snow which will create unusually icy conditions...
...Enforcer. The Al Capone and Waxie Gordon stories will remind readers past their 30s that Prohibition racketeers, large & small, had come to be an accepted part of most U.S. communities. To get Capone became almost an obsession with President Herbert Hoover. Said Hoover to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: "Remember, now; I want that man Capone in jail...
Such convictions soon proved correct. As soon as the Band sounded off on the Brown medley, they hit their stride and many aisle-sitters kept craning their necks to see when the big drum would roll down past them to the stage. The big drum didn't appear, but the especially sonorous piping of the clarinets during the Brown number set the stage for a bear that seemed likely to pop out through the curtains at any minute and shuffle up to the podium. In spite of the ten sousaphones looming up at the back of the stage, the Brown...