Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leading your list should be the Harvard Athlete Association, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge 38. On last Tuesday night, the night set aside for students' wives, my wife went to H. A. A.'s pool for a swim. She was required to pay fifty cents for admission instead of the usual thirty-five. Next day I sought an explanation for this 42 percent increase. The reply, "Oh, the A.A. announced a general increase in all fees July...
...junior clergy rate A.F.L. and C.I.O.? Too much Communism in C.I.O., was the usual reply; yet C.I.O.'s industrial unionization and nonrestrictive policies seemed preferable to A.F.L. organization by crafts...
...discuss the line, the coaches, and the possibility of a change in Harlow's system is a story for another day, as are preliminary speculations about next fall's opponents, but it's sufficient to say that Dick Harlow should have a somewhat cheerier outlook than usual when practice starts on Soldier's Field the day after Labor Day. It's conceded that the Yalies, among others, will present an awesome spectacle come November, but at least the Cambridge oologist has the basis for a Varsity squad which might inject a few surprises into the Eastern grid-iron picture...
...with the Van Deventers (minus Nancy, who had to go back to school) as the backbone of the experts' panel. In less than five months, the show was the new gee-whiz quiz in radio. Last week, Twenty Questions (Mutual, Sat., 8 p.m., E.D.S.T.) got its usual 10,000 to 12,000 fan letters and a nationwide sponsor (Ronson lighters...
Jones built up an interracial (50-50) faculty, soon boasted Negro names like Sociologist Charles S. Johnson, Librarian-Author Arna W. Bontemps (St. Louis Woman), the late Poet James Weldon Johnson. Northern Negroes, reversing the usual tide, began to go South to Fisk. (1946 enrollment: 1,034, with 48% from above the Mason-Dixon line. In 1926, all but 11% were Southern Negroes...