Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their problems. Francis Tokar of St. Bonaventure University reports: "I had been trying to sell a TIME subscription to a certain student for weeks. I finally wound up lending him the money to buy the subscription, and he left school without returning it. At long last, however, he did send a money order to cover the old loan." At Seton Hall University, Agent Irving Blau was stumped by a fellow student who refused to subscribe because TIME hadn't mentioned the remarkable Seton Hall basketball team. "However," says Blau, "the very next week, when there was a story...
...many or as few as they wish. The average is about 15 invitations in those clubs which get a majority of the sophomores they invite. Porcellian, however, will sometimes take only four or five in what members call a "lean" social year. Clubs not so well-endowed financially must send out greater numbers of invitations and must invite more members throughout the year since dues are essential for club up-keep...
...Council plans to buy about 700 postcards and distribute them to "Cliffe students who will send the cards to their senators and state representatives, urging a vote in favor of the bill...
...Whenever he emerged, he seemed to be wearing the same baggy suit and the same battered old hat. Once, when a prosperous former student spotted him shuffling across the campus, he turned to a companion and said: "You know, he was good to me. I think I'll send...
Tragedy of Hormones. When in 1920 his father saw his first Broadway hit, Beyond the Horizon, a bitter domestic drama, he grumbled: "Are you trying to send the audience home to commit suicide?" But the audiences seemed to enjoy the beating they took. In the ripe years 1920-35, O'Neill made almost $1,000,000. Three plays (Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) won the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1936, he became the second American (after Sinclair Lewis) to win the Nobel Prize for Literature...