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...pinch, there are always lipsticks, compacts, or combinations of both, nail polish and all the tools that go with it, wallets, pocketbooks, and endless types of jewelry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Offers Tips to Shoppers Puzzled What To Give (Him, Her) | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...Coop, which doesn't sell liquor but the things to drink it with, also hasn't felt any pinch. During the football season students, on pre-game Thursdays and Fridays, buy cheap, expendable glasses. Now the Coop claims that customers from all over the country are ordering generous-sized beer mugs engraved with the person's name and class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square's Liquor Stores Enjoying Christmas Rush | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...Physicians and Surgeons, had served overseas in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. The second, Dr. Georges Montel, a native of France, got a quickie license from the college only last September. He also had a war record: he served the Vichy government. The third, a local doctor pinch-hitting as head surgeon, was brushed aside. Last month the Sorel hospital turned down the veteran, hired Collaborator Montel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Veteran's Preference | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...least of the Band's problems will be that of manpower. Although the usual 30 incoming freshman members will not be available for the pre-registeration jaunt, there will be no difficulty filling the 80 slots, which are well below the football season par of 130. In a pinch graduate members can be used, according to Band tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band May Serenade Stanford in '49 | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...World. In Ito, on Izu Peninsula, Japan, natives celebrated the beginning of their annual three-day shiritsumi festival, during which the law allows any man to pinch any woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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