Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bizarre present that found favor in 1946 was a sequence of fourteen sonnets lettered in Old English, and illuminated, on a sheet of parchment. What gave a fillip to the toil that went into the manufacture of the gift was the fact that each sonnet described an outing or incident the Middlebury giver had shared with the Harvard recipient...
Sixteen news-boys and girls, newly converted from the ranks of the Harvard Youth for Democracy, cried their wares from the Yard's many gates with unexpected success, as almost 400 copies of the infant publication were sold. Such inspired pitchmen as Jean Lo Corbeiller '48 loudly touted the sheet for browsing purposes "in that next dull class of yours...
Bracken and the Beaver demanded to see General Cinema Finance's balance sheet. The Beaver's Daily Express hinted that the Stock Exchange might suspend dealings in Odeon stock "until full accounts of the General Cinema Finance Corp. . . . have been published." The Tribune, a Socialist weekly, thought that Rank might have lost so much money on his prestige films for the U.S. market that G.C.F. needed a financial transfusion from Odeon...
...primarily to out to a minimum the amount of time taken in getting a returned book back on the shelves, the new system will give each volume an arbitrary numerical listing which will be written on a small dated slip of paper inserted in place of the present date sheet when the book is charged...
Seals will be sent through the mails to students shortly. A sheet of 100 will come in each envelope...