Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record is not entirely favorable. Tutorial has been left behind in the rush. The House System has not fulfilled its potentialities, and personal contact between student and instructor is at a minimum. Although these shortcomings should not be accepted complacently, in the final accounting, the academic year 1946-47 has been one in which Harvard has demonstrated its vitality. Its capacity has been strained, but the strain has only served to demonstrate a reserve of energy that is not called upon in ordinary years...
...says: 'How's golf been, Harry?' Before Harry can answer, a redheaded messenger dashes up, hands him a pink slip. Harry reads it close to his chest, yells: 'Sell July one. Sell July one.' The red-faced man and a dozen other traders rush him, wave their hands at him, shout in his face, scream in his ears, tug at his sleeves, dance up and down before his eyes. They want to buy an eighth of a cent lower...
Negotiator Dring promptly came to terms with 23,000 long-distance operators in 42 states for an average increase of $4.40, and the rush was on. Freed from policy-committee control, locals signed up all across the Midwest; with Southern Bell; with Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone in Maryland. By week's end nearly 50% of the strikers had agreed to weekly wage boosts averaging $3 to $4. Picket lines of Western Electric installation men still kept most of them from the job, still prolonged the official end of the strike, but for the N.F.T.W. it was all over...
...Having arranged for the multitude of shots required by foreign service, she is likely to hear from correspondents or photographers, wherever they go, requesting this or that drug, a favorite prescription, some needed advice. Not long ago a photographer in a remote part of China cabled frantically for a rush order of medication for his wife, who was momentarily expecting a child...
Festivities are slated for almost every minute of the hectic two days, with everything from baseball to theater events waiting for the couples. Groggy from the impact of mimeographed, shouted, and printed matter, the average Yardling is expected to rush from the Yale Freshman baseball game to theatre or cocktail before arriving at the evening affair...