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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the regular school year, the girls run an involved Student Government, and have organizations ranging from the YWCA to a Drum and Bugle Corps. They also possess a Retummoe Club (Retummoe is "commuter" spelled backwards) for social gatherings. In the Retummoe Room, the girls may smoke, "if done with discretion." However, Regulation G warns that "Sargent College is definitely opposed to the use of alcoholic beverages." A girl who drinks on the sly may easily be expelled. In the months of June and September, students adjourn to the college camp in Peterborough, New Hampshire, or soccer, hockey, lacrosse, speedball...
...first regular session of the Eightieth Congress on July 27, Republican estimates of the amount of money saved by Congress ranged from $700,000,000 to $7,000,000,000. But by the end of the special session in December it was a hard and uncomfortable fact that Congress had appropriated $37,728,000,000 for the fiscal year...
...future spotlights matches with Yale and Princeton, who currently share the intercollegiate league lead with the Crimson, and, typical of Big Three battles, this promises to be a honey, as the eyes of squash fortune are also shining on the Bulldog and Tiger this year. Besides their regular intercollegiate play, the Varsity may enter the national championships in Boston at the end of February. Most important, however, are the intercollegiate singles championships at the start of March. The Crimson will probably enter its top trio in this competition which will bring together over 20 of the East's top racquet...
...getting it started last week, Publisher Walter Annenberg's Inquirer beat John S. Knight's Miami Herald to the draw as the first U.S. newspaper to broadcast regular, daily facsimile editions to its readers. At week's end the Herald, whose first receivers were delayed by weather, got on the air too, for readers at a supermarket. The New York Times and a dozen other dailies were getting ready. They weren't quite sure where facsimile would lead them, but the press had once badly underestimated radio and television, and it did not intend...
...position, the undertaker quietly suggested, should certainly lie in a sheet-bronze casket with a quilted satin lining. Of course the widow would want the body to be on view in the "reposing room" before the ceremony. The service could be held either in the "chapel" or in a regular church, whichever she preferred, but it would be a great comfort to know that her late husband would be laid away in a vault of waterproof cement, guaranteed to give protection "not for years, not for life, but forever." The whole thing would come to about...