Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleep till Memorial Hall chimes ring and make your 9 o'clock class. You can eat the best food in the College as immense inter-house eating lines attest. You can swim in the only House pool. And you can test your attitude toward parietal rules against the challenge of a dozen unguarded gates. In short, almost everything prospective House residents want, Adams claims to have...
Hole Closed. The Bureau of Internal Revenue closed a tax loophole. Some commodity traders have been converting short-term capital gains (taxable up to 86½%) into long-term gains (taxable at only 25%) by inducing brokers to postpone recording gains till six months after the transactions. The Revenue Bureau ordered brokers to record every transaction when made...
Three weeks ago a pal bet Alf 10 shillings and two gallons of beer that he couldn't grow a beard and keep it on till Easter. Alf figured the bet was a cinch, because he had grown a beard last summer and none of his bosses had said a word. This time, however, Brewery Manager Jack Redmund (who had been Alf's officer in the territorials during the war) issued an ultimatum: "Shave it off or work inside." A brewery executive explained: "We didn't feel that the growth of the beard upheld the prestige...
...ticket director Frank Lunden warned New Haven-bound weekenders yesterday to pick up their ducats for the swimming and basketball contests at his office before 5 o'clock this afternoon. All unsold tickets will he mailed back to New Haven tonight, and it is unlikely that they will last till Saturday...
Valpey confirmed reports that he would install a quasi-Michigan system, but the student on the street will have to wait till October 2, 1948 to view the spinning fullback and the two platoon system, Harvard style. "There will be no games and no outside scrimmages before Columbia," the new coach explained...