Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council sub-committee on food took a guided inspection tour of the Kirkland House control kitchen yesterday noon. This was one of the field trips taken since the Council investigation of the Dining Hall situation was instigated two weeks...
...never were these sub-deb tunes played as he plays them. His walking bass is a thing of inexorable sureness; his traditional handling of these untraditional pieces is never dull, almost always completely...
Many doctors believe that the common cold is caused by a virus. Dr. Leon T. Atlas of the U.S. Public Health Service has been so sure of it that since 1947 he has been growing a sub-microscopic bug that seemed to be the guilty party. At Bethesda, Md. he nurtured his virus first in the noses of willing victims, then in hen's eggs. The strain, known as MRI, be came the world's No. 1 biological curiosity...
Seaman Williams had volunteered for submarine duty. In 1944 he made one patrol out of Oahu in the U.S.S. Sargo, then was beached as "temperamentally unqualified." Said he of sub duty: "I just couldn't learn the machinery...
...next morning. Peering out, passengers saw a frozen and desolate scene: a big black river wandering amid a lacework of sloughs, and empty leagues of snow and spruce. The planes landed on a sandbar, took off hurriedly after the muffled Argonauts had hauled their gear out into the sub-zero Arctic wind. More fares ($90 round trip, $50 one way for 165 miles) were waiting...