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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a full set of plans for a new organization, which it chooses to call "The Crimson Key Society." Ideas of setting up some sort of welcoming committee for visiting athletes and other worthies began to pop up back during the late lamented football season. So, in its usual thorough but plodding manner, the Council gathered together a four-man committee, which worked long and hard for more than a month and finally produced a constitution for the projected Crimron Key, which needs only Dean's Office approval to go into immediate operation...
...lightest and most digest-able materials, "Sitting Pretty" is easy to enjoy in a light mood. Often in the past the movies have given suburbia benign pokes in ribs, and this one, a kind of combination of "Claudia" and "Blondie" is among the best of the genre. As usual nothing much happens; a number of people think something, especially cuckoldry, is happening; but the audience, smugly aware that everything's just fine, keeps its happiness and its equanimity...
...Poor Swedes." Politically the week opened in confusion bordering on panic among the parliamentary blocs. The Communists alone promptly embraced the treaty proposal. The others looked at it with despairing distaste. The Social Democrats, as usual, pretty much held the key to the situation and, as usual, did not seem to know what to do about...
...They are not believed to exist already formed in a normal nucleus, but are created somehow when an energetic particle smashes into the unknown but enormously powerful field of force that holds the nucleus together. Study of mesons may tell what this force is. The next step (in the usual sequence of things) may be control of the force. This may lead in the direction of a vastly better source of atomic energy than the fission of uranium...
Unlike the usual inter-House eating plan, which requires Union members to be guests of House residents, Yard dwellers will be permitted, during this period, to take up to seven meals at Houses without invitation...