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...News editorial: "Mch hs bn wrttn abt rfrmed spllng as a savr of spc. Possbly ths wld b a gd pln. Bt it wld b a bttr pln if it wer carrd frthr. If a systm of abbrvtns wr adptd, as mch as 40 pct of spc cld b savd. ... It wldn't be so hrd as u mght thnk. U cn read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Results of a Scarcity | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...characteristic of those who like to think for themselves that they will try to express their ideas. If there is no opportunity savd on an examination, they will try it there, usually with disastrous conseqnences to themselves. The more interested they are in the subject, the more likely they are to go off on a tangent, and put too much time on the phase that has especially drawn their attention. The result is a very lopsided blue-book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theses Vs. Bluebooks | 3/8/1930 | See Source »

...till last Wednesday; for on Tuesday night about 12 o'clock, in the severest snow storm I ever remember I heard the cry of Fire, one moment brought me to the window where I saw the old Harvard College on fire, and it was with the utmost difficulty they savd the other Buildings. Stoughton was on fire an Hour, Massachusetts catched in three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest corner, there was nothing saved in old College except a bed or two, the whole Library, except some books lent out and Mr. Hollis's last donation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The College Fire. | 3/18/1886 | See Source »

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