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...needed to take care of even the skeleton 80-man crew planned for the trip, will have to be collected from Harvard Clubs and graduates throughout the nation. To make up some of this sum the Band may play to Harvard Clubs in San Francisco and, on the way back, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band May Serenade Stanford in '49 | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...Skeleton forces will work behind locked doors at such offices as the University telephone switchboards, and their operations will not be affected by the move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lehman Hall Bureaus Adopt Five-Day Week | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...never mention anything spent for liquor) or their personalities-whichever is in worst repair. They like to say that their readers are a jump ahead of them; the fact is that the Journal is out to educate women just as fast as it can, while rattling many a social skeleton in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies' Choice | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...tower or only the ruins of a windmill built by Governor Benedict Arnold (great-grandfather of Traitor Arnold) of the Rhode Island colony. Down-to-earth archeologists side with James Fenimore Cooper who (in The Red Rover) called it a windmill. The romantic school inclines to Longfellow, whose The Skeleton in Armor refers to the "lofty tower" built by a far-flung Norseman for his "lady's bower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...from the pen of France's murky thriller-writer, Georges Simenon, or from mysticky W. Somerset Maugham, or even from a Hollywood scripter ("One can imagine . . . Miss Bacall's pretty head lolling on the stretcher . . .") But needless to say, it is the flesh and mind, not the skeleton, that make The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most ambitious book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Price Pity? | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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