Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing of the Teams CollegeW L Pet. Cornell 10 1 .909 Yale 5 3 .625 Dartmouth 5 3 .625 Columbia 6 5 .545 Princeton 5 6 .455 Harvard 2 7 .222 Pennsylvania...
...Doctor Takes a Wife tells about a personable youth and an attractive girl who are mutually repelled at first glance, then forced by circumstances to pretend they are man & wife. To their embarrassment and their fiances' annoyance, they endure congratulations, pet publicly, share the same lodgings. Their sleeping quarters are, of course, conspicuously separate. In the last reel, habit having dulled discernment, they marry...
Each vice-president has used his own pet method to establish contact between the Clubs and the University graduate, varying with the Harvard population of his district. In populous New England between 85 and 70 meetings have been held by the Clubs, while in Montana, a "one man club", W. J. McCormick '07, has been carrying on the entire state organization by himself...
Shifting to the topic of the weather, Abbot voiced his "pet" theory that all changes in weather are caused by fluctuations in the intensity of the sun's rays...
...though SEC were not enough, A. P. also joined battle with the Secretary of the Treasury, his pet hate. In September 1938, just before meeting, the directors of Bank of America got a telegram from the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, one of whose jobs is to watch the capital-deposit ratios of national banks. The telegram threatened to cite the directors to the Federal Reserve Board if they declared the bank's regular dividend. A. P. and his directors defiantly declared it, have continued to ever since. Blaming Walker for telling secrets to SEC, blaming Morgenthau...