Word: recently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Advocate, whose face has been lifted nearly half a dozen times in the last three years, has finally undergone a real clean-up job. The current issue exhibits more variety, more imagination in planning, and less rubbish than any in recent seasons...
...inevitably, the billboards have their sordid patches. One recent ad read: "Well-situated, well-educated lady, 45 years old, is looking for cultivated girl friend who must be blonde with full figure...
During his recent visit to Tokyo, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked some of the newspaper boys to drop by at the U.S. embassy for a drink. Twelve U.S. newsmen came. Burly, bumbling Royall talked, on & off, for an hour. He left the reporters free to use his remarks if they did not attribute them to him. What he had said during that cocktail hour set off a cyclone of alarm and confusion...
...Egypt, where Jersey Standard had invested $12.5 million, the company last week suspended operations "indefinitely." The principal reason: recent interpretations of Egyptian law blocked standard from exporting crude to its European refineries...
...recent meeting of Government 155b Associate Professor Cherington announced to the members of the course the name, address, and phone number of the chairman of the local chapter of Plan E for Boston League, known to some as the Beat-Curley-By-All-and-Any-Means-Cofraternity. He urged them to communicate with her for voluntary work in furtherance of the Great Cause. Plan E is not desired on its merits but as a means of getting rid of Curley. A few sarcastic remarks from the high throne of academic superiority disposed of Mr. Curley, and the rest...