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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Service Fund drive seemed certain to fall short of the $25,000 goal by about $7,000, vice-President Reynolds reasserted last night that he would reject any food saving plan forced on a dissenting minority. This indicated that the Council could not enforce its wheat economy scheme in spite of a recent poll which showed students two-to-one in favor of the plan...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Fund Drive, Wheat Poll Face Last-Minute Snags | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Phillips Brooks House and several worthy charities will suffer because the Service Fund drive has fallen so short," Student Council Treasurer Ray A. Goldberg '48 announced last night, but added, "The fault does not lie in the size of individual contributions, but in the fact that we have failed to reach our goal of 100 percent participation...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Fund Drive, Wheat Poll Face Last-Minute Snags | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...looks like a gnat. A man can lift its tail with one hand, push it over with the other. On a fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Flivver Flight | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...must go short of chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Macaronic Soup | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...nothing to do with words. And the minute I start to work I feel this other language between me and the person I'm 'busting': a language of form. I feel it in my hands. Some of my busts are novels you might say, and some short stories. The one I did of D. H. Lawrence was a short story, because he died a week after I began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronze Buster | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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