Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 1950, Yard cop John Fitzgerald discovered a nondescript band of students inside the subterranean steam tunnels. Knowing his duty, he chased them--all the way from Adams House to Lowell. When he discovered that they were only members of the Harvard Outing Club on a guided tour, he began to leave. But he had gone too far and promptly lost his way. The HOC had to lead...
...wasn't the bald-headed eagle. A little slickum, a little polish, smooth out a few of those wrinkles, he'd been letting himself get seedy lately. Look old, feel old. Now to get rid of that . . . . . . pot belly. There must be something to do about that. Some steam and a quick rubdown. Not too much; there was a beautiful day to be lived outside...
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MacArthur's counterpunch had plenty of steam behind it. Truman, he said, "would relieve many millions of patriotic minds ... if, instead of indulging in innuendo and trying to alibi the past, he would announce the firm determination that under no conditions . . . would the U.S. permit Formosa to fall in Red hands or Communist China to be seated in the U.N. This simple and understandable assurance he has never given. I predict he never will...
...looked rather like a masculine version of Fleur Cowles's late, ill-starred Flair. It looked even more like the fancy and expensive ($3 a copy) trade quarterly, American Fabrics, also published by Reporter Publications. Gentry abounded in detachable inserts (an architect's plans for a Finnish steam bath, a 16-page portfolio of engravings of ducks) and three-color textile ads illustrated by swatches of materials (Shetland woolens, fine corduroys, cotton shirtings, etc.). Gentry extended the sample theme to its articles, in one of which a bag of marjoram was glued to a piece about the herb...