Word: perks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, having outlasted the scholars, Pennsylvania alumni and students began to perk up. Strolling in Spruce Street in the sultry sunshine, they snickered at the university's ubiquitous silk-hatted trustees, snapped up Willkie buttons from Willkiettes who handed them out in front of Houston Hall, Bicentennial headquarters. Soon a university publicity man hustled out, shooed the Willkiettes away. Conscious of his duties as a host, earnest President Gates meant to permit no discourtesy to the guest of the day: the President of the U. S. He had made short work of a testy complaint by old Mining Magnate...