Word: system
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calm. Homer got 6,000 electric bulbs, seven new electric cables, and a public-address system and installed them on the lawn in front of his house, which is about the biggest of all the big houses on Swiss Avenue. He built three papier-máché camels, 24 sheep, nine shepherds, one cow, and the figures of the Three Wise Men and Mary and the Infant Jesus. He mounted the Star of Bethlehem on a 50-ft. steel mast and built a manger. Then he turned on the lights, and the public-address system put out Christmas carols...
...system was simple. He erected a corrugated-tin "clubhouse" on land (which he leased but did not own) in the oak-shaded canyon bottom. Then he lured aging citizens 34 miles from Los Angeles by offering free bus rides and free lunches. From the clubhouse he allowed them to catch sight of four broken-down old oil derricks which stood near by. Before they left, most of his prospects were convinced that 1) Yant's land was in the grassy canyon bottom and 2) an ocean of oil gurgled just below the surface...
More successful Rolls owners are Steven B. Sharp '52 (lower picture) and his bother Rodman '51. Their sleek black 1930 convertible with red trimmings boasts chromium-plated cylinder walls, a silver-nicked radiator, an aluminum body, overhead values, an automatic lubrication system, two ignition systems, two carburetors, and a spare gas tank. A wheel can be changed in less than a minute. Its only failures, according to the Sharps, are "the lack of a built-in machine-gun turret and the inordinate amount of gas it consumes...
Corwin described the airwaves as in a mediocre condition today. He laid the blame for this mainly on sponsors who rely too much on advertising agencies and agencies that depend too greatly on the rating system for deciding a program's success...
...logical solution to problem one is to limit the number of guests in the most highly patronized dining halls, in the manner of the old Adams House rule. Problem two is more subtle. How much a hastily-gobbled frankfurter or dining with one's neighbors helps uphold the House system is unclear. But the integrity of each House, important as that is, should not be allowed to interfere with exchange of ideas which is, after all, the reason for coming to college...