Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other officials echoed this opinion and agreed that the day was exceptionally uneventful. Not a single neophyte even tried to sneak a stray mother through the line as an aid to his labors, although one lad did bring a comely feminine acquaintance into Memorial Hall and left her waiting in the east end while he went through the ceremonies...
This time however, his arrangements lacked their usual sparkle. For once, you didn't have to play them over and over again to catch stray and subtle instrumental ideas. The records were pompous and grandiose, and suffered from all the bad taste of meaningless slowing of tempos, etc. that Kostalonetz usually avoids...
...latest feature to be added is "The College Pump" which first appeared in the March 8 issue as a column "for the stray line of Harvard verse, the pleasant non-sequitur of academic observation, and the simple fragment of phrase...
...Fakir of Ipi has not popped up now for over a year, but last week the British reported that Waziristan tribesmen were again shooting at stray Indian soldiers. At New Delhi it was quickly concluded that the Fakir had gone on the warpath once more. Matters became so serious that regular Army communiqués were issued. "Our casualties were light," read one which might well have described the Western Front. "The second of two columns encountered considerable opposition...
...Patrolman Philip G. Pierman Jr.'s) began coming in over the short wave. What made the listeners sit up and take notice was, mingling with it, the voice of a woman. Obviously Pierman was in his patrol car, but obviously he was investigating no housebreaker, collaring no stray dog. Headquarters listened with all their ears, unable, if they wanted, to crowd into...