Word: post-holiday
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Expecting a post-holiday reaction from the Christmas buying spree, U.S. retailers found to their surprise that the spree is still going on. In the first week of January, department-store sales were 26% above 1941; in the second week, a fabulous 32%. Less than half this rise can be attributed to higher prices. At their regular January white sales, department store counters were jammed with hoarders, laying in supplies of everything from cotton sheets to wool socks...
...Blue started off the season with a brilliant series of victories, but the loss of team-work and the absence of Iglehart from the post-holiday line-up shattered the team's power so that the present record stands at seven won and seven lost. Most significant victories on the Eli schedule have been those over Army, Dartmouth, and the Boston Hockey Club. Other victories were at the expense of St. Nicholas, Melrose Hockey Club, and Boston University. Yale has lost to Clarkson, Crescent A. C., Metropolitan, Princeton and Toronto. The last two teams were defeated by Harvard...
...vacant and cobwebs adorned the walls. Just how humorous he really was, the artist doubtless had no idea--assuming that humor is an exaggerated perversion of the truth. January 3, 1928, came and Widener's halls were comfortably filled. There appeared to be on difference in routine from post-holiday attendance in other years. And yet a remarkable change had been and still is being effected...
...authorities has in a large measure been responsible for the efficient service of the institution. Having been granted a certain freedom the average student feels more or less obliged to prove himself worthy of the bequest. A further test of his worthiness will be found in the post-holiday weeks...
...plan for the Periods, as explained by Dean Hanford, seems neither revolutionary nor premature. It appears as the logical sequence to the general educational policies of the University. Certainly the pessimistic may now rest easier, since it is seen that the regiment for these post-holiday weeks has been carefully anticipated...