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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last 25 years, Harvard Mountaineering Club members have gotten into the same sort of jams and gone back for more. The club celebrated its silver anniversary this summer by sending four expeditions to four countries, climbing mountains like Teepe's Pillar and Devil's Paw and mapping miles of snow-covered peaks never before seen by human eyes...
...average daily pay from $14.05 to $15.00; a reduction from eight to seven hours a day with no pay cut; an increase of 10 or 20 cents a ton in royalty payments; and a production control plan to spread available work among all miners. Management is reportedly against any sort of raise...
Gradually the jitters passed. Somehow, the girls managed to sort out their bags, then moved on to the waiting taxis. Only one had to run back for her pocketbook...
...writing most of his first "Henry Green" novel, Blindness, while a schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally I was in the copper shops...
Butler Charley is an ambitious rogue with a bad conscience, a double man who is torn between his desire to make hay while the sun shines in neutral Eire and his realization that his manly pride depends on his returning to embattled Britain. Similarly, he is the sort of a man who loves to hide his capacity for love and loyalty under a leering, winking mask of sexy chatter and innuendo ("Let me tell you," he assured young Albert, referring to the departed French governess, "there was many an occasion I went up to Mam-selle's boudoir...