Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...council voted, however, to send Recommendation 4, proposing that no student be allowed to entertain women in his room on more than three afternoons a week, back to the committee. The members instructed the committee to eliminate any reference to "trading" one or more afternoons a week for Friday evening hours, but to indicate that the Council would be willing to accept changes in the afternoon schedule proposed by the Faculty...
Harrison muttered an unhappy obscenity and proceeded to his room. Once there, he began grinding out haiku after haiku in an attempt to produce the Oriental poetry equivalent of three thousand words of fiction. "Window panes are crying raindrops/Bicycles skid on slippery streets/Who will sunbathe with me?" "Japanese beetles crawl on rose bushes...
...Harrison," yelled his roommate from the living room, "how about 'The quick brown for jumps over the lazy dog?' That way you could capture the totality of the alphabet while retaining that basic Oriental structure. Or how about 'Foggy day in London town,' capturing that Anglo-Oriental music hall essence...
...rise in installment credit equals only 1.9% of income after taxes, slightly less than the rise in 1955. Despite higher dollar auto sales this year, the net increase on auto credit after repayments on past credit will be only slightly more than half that in 1955, thus leaving room for credit expansion to buy 1960 models...
...stations. To handle the 2.3 million passengers expected to move through it next year on 104 daily flights, the terminal is equipped with inclined ramps instead of stairways, a null electronic flight-information board, three-lane enclosed auto driveways that lead into the first and second floors, a dining room, cocktail lounge, and arcades for shops. Jutting out on either side of the terminal are two null loading arcades that can handle as many as 24 aircraft at a time...