Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon today a light plane, piloted by an editor of the Daily Dartmouth, will fly over the Harvard Yard and drop a load of toilet paper. The plane was used yesterday for aiding fire-fighters in New Hampshire, so plans may be subject to change, but if you don't see it today, expect it tomorrow...
...Sotos live in two candlelit rooms in a row of two-story barracks. Four times a day (for 30-minute periods), their tap runs water, but the house has no bath or toilet. Occasionally, the family uses one of six collective baths that the Government has constructed...
...have in common is Robert Gordon Sproul. The lonely bigness of Berkeley helps to explain why the Cal rooting section* at football games is not only the world's largest but at times its most raucous. Undergraduates sometimes blow off steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year's Big Game, 25-6, disgruntled Cal rooters tore up the grandstands. U.C.L.A.'s rooters, who last year...
Hardy Mrs. Craig had asked Navy permission to return to the U.S. with the presidential party and the male reporters aboard the battleship Missouri. The Navy, which has a stern rule against carrying women aboard warships-even grandmothers-because there are no toilet facilities for them, promptly passed the buck to the White House. But Mrs. Craig was well aware that the Navy had provided facilities for Mrs. Truman, Margaret and a maid in the austere privacy of the captain's island...
Chemical Job. When the White House turned her down, Reporter Craig said: "Lack of toilet facilities is a trivial excuse. I would settle for one of those chemical jobs they sell at Sears, Roebuck. They'll be sorry. . . ." Clearly, Harry Truman would have to do something about May Craig...