Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passenger on the plane. Largo had taken a box of fish to the airline office, where it was weighed in and tagged. He insisted on taking the box to the airfield. Between the office and the airfield he was met by Salazar, who transferred the tags to a similar box containing dynamite and a time fuse crudely made from an old timing device used in permanent-wave machines. The fuse, originally set to go off in 15 minutes, had been adjusted by a watchmaker who changed the time to 45 minutes. They put the box aboard the plane...
...part of nationwide revival of college interest in social economic problems the Harvard society will try to establish a similar at Radcliffe. As was the practice before its inactivity, the society will correspond with socialist organizations in other American colleges...
These and similar whoppers, punctuated by dramatic organ chords, have raised eyebrows and blood pressure among sport-writers. The late Lloyd Lewis blasted the Lincoln story in a sports page editorial in the Chicago Daily News; the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith devoted a column to Stern fancies. Some editors, like the New York World-Telegram's Joe Williams, feel that Sports Newsreel is a misnomer. To Stern, the point is scarcely worth arguing. "It isn't a sports show, it's entertainment for the same kind of people who listen to Jack Benny...
...Provost called the liaison man into his office and told him to cut it out. Thus, in one case the Fill system was discovered using such scare tactics and stopped. The question remains as to how many similar incidents have never been reported, but just brooded over by the victims...
Around January 1, 1950, the largest section of the housing project will open to occupants. This portion of the apartment building program is made up of a three-storey building built on three sides of a garden court and a similar structure adjacent to it on Raymond Street...