Word: residente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"So Secure." Today the remaining citadels of resident society are held by such doughty widows as Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, and three other garrison leaders known as "the three Bees." They are a pretty subdued lot.
Then, in 1931, the routine was suddenly shattered. The "autonomous" government of Outer Mongolia, which was coming more & more under Soviet influence, outlawed Buddhism as the national religion, confiscated the lamasery lands. The Dilowa Hutukhtu withdrew first to Inner Mongolia, then to North China, finally (during the Japanese war) to...
Several hundred shivering students cheered the smoke-eaters as they lofted ladders and spotlights to the top floor of Little Hall, smashed in the front door of the book store, and evacuated all resident students from the Massachusetts Avenue block.
Before starting out for more money, Barnard took steps to live within its present income. Resident students (about a third of the total) got a polite ultimatum: do your own housekeeping chores or pay more rent. The girls voted to do the chores. At the same time they were told...
Freestyle skating, Button's specialty, was the field in which the Massachusetts Hall resident most outshone his opponents. He went through his repertoire of runs, mid-air twirls, high splits, and prodigious leaps without a slip.