Word: transients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scottish highlands there is a town that comes to life once every hundred years. This town is called Brigadoon. In Hollywood there is a giant Cinemascopic set speckled with full-sweatered girls, bagpipes and Van Johnson. This is also called Brigadoon. So much has been said about the transient quality of both that an observer of Hollywood's Brigadoon finds himself looking for new beauty in seemingly insignificant details...
Also effected by the increase will be transient board prices. Supper will have a five-cent raise, going from $1.10 to $1.15, and lunch will be raised from eighty cents to eighty-five cents. Breakfast will be the only transient meal unchanged...
...supported his claims. But others shook their heads. There are great dangers: allergic reactions, shock, accidental infection with viruses or other microbes. There is a good chance that the "placebo effect" (i.e. mental suggestion) is responsible for improvement in many patients. Others, especially those suffering from a transient form of tetany, get better spontaneously...
...reportedly traces back to the days when Arab bandits blocked roads and then descended on their victims. The fellagha, rising up in Tunisia's rich but savage hinterland, so far number about 400 fighters, led by Lazhar Cheraiti, who a year and a half ago was a transient laborer. The French claim that the fellagha were trained across the border in Libya by former French prisoners of the Viet Minh, brainwashed by their Communist captors. The French also say that the Arab League, the Communists and the Neo-Destour are at work with the fellagha, though the independence-seeking...
Those remaining here for Commencement may take meals at Kirkland House through June 15, paying either by coupons or by cash at transient rates...