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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls have style and 'elan', and take their highly varied and extensive social life well in their stride." Compared with other women's colleges, he said, "It ranks with Bryn Mawr and Barnard as the three leading intellectual colleges, yet it does not have 'the supra-heated steam intellectualism' of Bryn Mawr. Holyoke girls are too sweet and wholesome, while Wellesley girls don't measure up intellectually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Cliffe Girl: An Instructor's View | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

Curry, one of the leaders of the splinter group which split off from the Young Democrats last October, yesterday told the CRIMSON he did not think the Democrats were serious about going through with the suit. He said he was sure the club had finished "blowing off steam" about what he termed that "rather old, stale joke." Curry added that "those irresponsible fools couldn't possibly win a civil suit...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Democratic Club Considers Civil Action Against Curry | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

Those who have known Ros longest and best say that her part in Wonderful Town is simply an enlargement of her own personality. She has always been forthright, both "musically and noisily inclined," and has operated under a full head of steam. After the opening, she cried: "Imagine! They're paying me all this money to do the things I do at parties for free!" She is famous in Hollywood for her ability to clown a dying party back on to its feet. Loretta Young recalls that at many a fading soirée, Ros has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Although the house is only forty years old, it has not completely succumbed to modern science. No TV set has challenged the sanctity of the living room, and a leaky steam-valve in the basement has defied the efforts of Buildings and Grounds plumbers. Today a bucket hangs from the valve to catch the dripping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President's Palace | 3/13/1953 | See Source »

...moved along with the rest of the furniture. As for deep-freezers, Betty wouldn't think of the low, chest-type any more; the new Westinghouse is upright, with "drop-down doors" and "rollout drawers," so that Betty can get at all her frozen foods easily. Her new steam iron eliminates the old pressure method of spreading steam, since it has a mass of little gullies on its bottom which lead the steam across the entire ironing surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Atomic-Power Men | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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