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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pale shadow of a "rent-control" bill which would decontrol all rooming houses, and all cities with more than 1% vacancies, and authorize landlords and tenants to enter into leases at any figure agreeable to both. The full committee took one look and hustled the monstrosity out of sight until...
...What Sort Big Dornkey?" The sights and sounds of civilization brought murmurs of comparison. On Tristan, fish oil lights the lamps. The diet is fish and potatoes, augmented sometimes by albatross and penguin eggs. Now the six men looked into the kaleidoscope of a lighted city. They ate ice cream doused with brandy. They gazed at autos. Murmured balding, long-nosed Gordon Glass* at his first glimpse of one: "A most wunnerful movement." At his first sight of a horse: "What sort big dornkey is that...
...basic course in theory--is blocked by so many prerequisites that it is virtually impossible for most non-concentrators to take the course. The prerequisites require students to pass a test involving sense of pitch and rhythm, and to display pianistic ability, both in playing easy pieces and in sight-reading. Although the degree of proficiency required is small, it is nonetheless prohibitive to the beginner. Furthermore, music theory is the only field in the College from which the non-concentrating amateur is virtually excluded...
...first sight, the Barnes Bill could appear to be an unextravagant little document--unextravagant, certainly, in an era notable for the existence of the government loyalty tests and the J. Parnell Thomas Committee. The Bill is entitled as an act to "prevent Communists and others who advocate the overthrow of government by force, violence, or other unlawful or unconstitutional means from being employed as teachers or otherwise in institutions of learning or schools or in the public education system." Although anyone who calls himself a liberal would scarcely approve of such a bill, it might will be considered as acceptable...
Tony Bowers, a high-class haberdasher across from Miami Beach's Roney Plaza, took out of his window the hand-painted necktie marked $1,500 and put it out of sight. "It's murder now," he said tersely. "I have some $25 and $35 ties, but I don't take them out unless a customer comes in and asks for one." All Miami felt the same way Tony did. By last week the city was aware that World War II-and the boom that followed-was over...