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When Harvard Houses were built, the administration planned that each should contain a cross-section of the College. The policy was never clearly defined, though, and some House masters have tried at times to select freshmen who would give the House a distinctive character...
Madrid society was all aflutter over the gala season that lay just ahead. Balenciaga, Rodriguez and other select dressmakers had fallen two months behind in deliveries. Printers had run short of cards for engraved invitations. Property owners had jammed the classified ads with offers of "apartments suitable for diplomats." After four years of boycott, some Western nations had sent ambassadors to the government of Dictator Francisco Franco...
When Boston's famed old Pepperell Manufacturing Co. mailed out a $1.25 first-quarter dividend to its 5,600 stockholders last week, it joined the select group of U.S. companies which have paid a dividend every year for a century. Moreover, with all four of its textile weaving mills (sheets, blankets, denim, etc.) booked solid, and with a tidy $4,000,000 profit on fiscal 1950's sales of $66 million, Chairman William Amory, 81, could report that Pepperell's future looked as promising as its past...
...each of the 100 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...
Munch's action, according to a spokesman for the Glee Club, may be the result of his dissatisfaction with the full chorus' work in last year's Pension Fund concert. Munch prefers to work with a smaller and more select group, the spokesman said...