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Most drastic of the changes is the shortening of the fall reading period to eight days. Last year, the reading period was ten days long, the shortest it had been since the war. At the time, University Hall said this was due to an unusual quirk of the calendar, and should not happen again...
When food is left over it usually reappears in a different form at lunch. By some quirk residents of Harnard and Briggs halls like left-overs more than girls in the other dorms do, according to Miss Burdakin. Some of the unused food is eaten by the maids, but they also get special meals of their own, since their food preferences are markedly different from those of the students...
When the London Psychic News revealed last year that the late Mackenzie King had been a practicing spiritualist for 25 years (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950), most Canadians put it down as one more quirk in the enigmatic private life of their veteran Prime Minister. But Blair Fraser, an editor of Maclean's magazine, wanted to know more about King's well-kept secret. This year he went to Britain, where King's spiritualist activities centered, to dig for information. Last week Fraser's findings were published in Maclean...
There is always a new quirk of interior decorating in the STUDIO SHOP at 557 Boylston Street in Boston. Newest are the highball glasses and ashtray above embellished with cartoons by Steig, Cobean, and Taylor...
...Play. Midland owed its boom to a quirk of nature and a persistent wildcatter named Arthur ("Tex") Harvey. Though Harvey knew that little oil had been found around Midland, he decided three years ago to take a chance anyway. He drilled down 12,000 feet to a stratum in which oil has been found elsewhere in Texas. The hole was dry. Then Harvey wondered what he might have missed on the way down. Working his well back, he got a little oil. Finally, in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands of the "Spraberry trend,"* at 8,000 ft., Tex Harvey...