Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most controversial measures in Harry Truman's program were still to be met. After the recess, the House would tackle the Administration's bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law. Administration strategists figured that a short visit with the home folks would win many Congressmen over to the Administration's side. Just to be sure, from A.F.L. and C.I.O. headquarters, orders went to locals all over the country. When Congressmen turned in the front gate, they would find delegations waiting on the front doorstep. A Democratic leader hopefully predicted: "We're going to pass a pretty...
However, Cann is "not negotiating with Harvard--any more than I am with any other school." The Violet mentor is emphatic in stating that his relations with NYU officials and friendly and that his chief cause of dissatisfaction is the short contracts...
...hope to escape the coat-and-tie regulations by transferring to Yale, your victory may be short-lived. Miss Bowers reports that certain old grads who came back for visits were "shocked" by the appearance of the freshmen in dining halls. Restrictions on dress are being planned...
...diving is nothing short of superb. Vicki Draves is an extraordinary performer, and her husband Lyle is almost as good. But the finest dive of the evening is performed by someone I have never heard of, and whose name I cannot remember. It is a combination backward somersault--two and one half forward somersault--full twist plunge off a board which could not have been more than 12 feet above the pool...
...Crimson was stopped from scoring three times by the aggressive McGill defense. Twice Sam Adams was flattened short of the goal line when as many as five defenders ganged him, and a field goal attempt by Hollis French after the touchdown missed, due primarily to difficult angle...