Word: transients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also, no code of ethics is an adequate substitute for religion. For if it be manmade, it can be remade by other men, and its true name is mores, which are transient. And even if, like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...
While all board charges cease with the last meal Saturday, students who desire to take their meals at the Union during the week-long vacation can sign on there throughout the rest of the week. Transient rates will be in effect for those who intend to do a great amount of dining out, and coupon books will be on sale...
Primary function of the Center, Hamlen stated, would be as a sort of "transient meeting place where any of Harvard's 82,000 Alumni visiting Cambridge could hang their coat, rest their weary bones, or thaw out after a football game...
Jayvee Personnel Transient...
...Janet's mother is Novelist Janet Ayer (The Bright Land) Fairbank; her aunt is Pulitzer Prize Novelist Margaret Ayer (Years of Grace) Barnes. In a stone mansion on Chicago's State Street and on a gingerbready Victorian estate at Wisconsin's Lake Geneva, the Fairbanks entertained transient celebrities. Janet concentrated on the musicians. Says she: "It was like Grand Central Station. Everyone who came to Chicago went through our house. I always knew a lot of composers. Prokofiev and John Alden Carpenter were in & out of the house...