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...life of a Nieman Fellow is not all study and lectures, the men revealed. "We intend to see all the football games, and the Nieman dinner every two weeks are swell. We're pretty good poker players. Take your CRIMSON "amateurs" on anytime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Pleases Nieman Fellows | 10/10/1941 | See Source »

...assemble in the Lowell House Common Room at eight o'clock next Friday for the purpose of signing up new members and making plans for filling the skies of Greater Boston with the drone of motors. Men in the University who have had Civilian Pilot Training are expected to swell the list of members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fliers and "Hangars-on" Gather to Enlist Squadron of Harvard Men | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

Eight more regular Freshman football uniforms have been given out in addition in the original 23 to swell the squad to 31 according to a statement made yesterday by Chief Boston, head coach of the Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Gives Out Uniforms To Eight More '45 Gridders | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

...sign on an open cigar box on his office desk: "It's a boy! Take one." Mother was also "an enthusiastic advocate" of big families. Author Partridge suspects that she had "some vague idea that by bringing children into the world she was helping to swell the armies of the Lord against the ... incursions of the Devil and the insidious infiltrations of Demon Rum." Author Partridge felt that older brothers were useful in a fight; younger ones made wonderful opportunities for teasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nostalgia | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Bewildered in Canada, the children were "rescued" by a U.S. "millionaire" who took them to Connecticut, but whose conversation was largely confined to the use of the phrase "That's swell." Not so language-conscious as a refugee friend, whose father told her he would rather have her torpedoed at sea than "acquire an American accent," Caroline and Eddie were nevertheless amazed by the description of an American automobile accident as "a bloody mess," and thoroughly shocked at the American expression "all balled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: You're Welcome | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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