Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is not to say that advisory indifference effects all undergraduates equally. The adviser's sink or swim attitude goes to work on a group that is severely split before it ever arrives in Cambridge. The need of a Massachusetts prop school graduate for a capable adviser will not parallel the need of a student from a small town in Kansas. The prep school product is likely to have a friend or a brother already at Harvard with whom he can consult on academic and other activities. The midwesterner will probably be entering a new and alien society, without personal...
Rather late, the Maharaja of Kashmir took measures to prop up his throne. He released from 15-month imprisonment the revered leader of the Kashmir Congress (India) Party, 6 ft. 4 in. tall Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, a Moslem but a follower of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru...
...another prop under high prices, the Department decided to set smaller marketing quotas for next year's crop. Less tobacco will keep prices where they are or boost them higher. Said one Department of Agriculture expert: "We'll make a profit on every...
First step in the production of the Hasty Pudding's centennial show will come Thursday when the clubhouse opens its doors to all upperclassmen who wish to compete for the positions of electrician, stage crew, stage manager, prop men, prompters, and ticket managers...
Organized in the spring of 1946 the club's membership fluctuates from around 15 at weekly meetings to 30 at the "Prop Blasts," otherwise known as dances. Each member of the local club, which officially is unaffiliated with any organization, carries a card pronouncing him a member of the Allied Airbourne Men of America...