Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea was so appealing to New Jersey's state legislature that the bill went through unanimously last spring. It required all state officials and employees, schoolteachers and municipal workers to take a special oath of allegiance to the U.S. In addition, the bill provided that any political candidate who refused to take the oath would have "Refused Oath of Allegiance" printed below his name on the ballot...
Seven states and 50 cities in the U.S. still put up with official movie censors, but their laws permit meddling only with such moral questions as how low can a neckline plunge.* Last spring Maryland's three censors extended their sway from decolletage to dialectics: they banned a 50-minute Polish documentary, On Polish Land (with no English subtitles), because they did "not believe it presents a true picture of present-day Poland." Instead, they ruled, the film "appears to be Communist propaganda...
...Last spring two Brown undergraduates died in fraternity roughhouses allegedly brought about by drunkenness. One fell down a flight of stairs and cracked his head; the other was stabbed with an ice-pick in a Providence...
Three unidentified men attacked Kurt S. Levy 1G last night at 11:45 in Cambridge Common and robbed him of five dollars in cash, a gold watch and a gold and silver bracelet in the first Square robbery since last spring's observatory thefts...
...other spring sports, only one--lacrosse--is totally dormant. Three or four varsity heavy crows are on the river daily, and the golf team has just held its fall tryouts at Dedham Golf Club. Even the baseball team is working out of season: a dozen men (notably outfielders) have organized informal practice...