Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when tutorial limitations have all but eliminated instructor-student contact, the recreational vacuum that surrounds out-of-class life at Harvard is strikingly emphasized. Efforts to coordinate the heterogeneous bulk comperising the undergraduate population have always been half-hearted, but in the past, Harvardmen have had enough leisure moments to work out a hit or miss social schedule of their own that could carry them through four years in Cambridge. Organized recreation now chiefly consists of a few token record dances and an annual class smoker...
...late vacuum-cleaner tycoon, William Henry Hoover, made a fortune out of helping to clean man's material house. To help clean man's spiritual house as well, Hoover left $50,000 to the Disciples of Christ "for the publication of writings on Christian unity." But in 1945, after 13 years of such propaganda, the Disciples decided that the money could best be used for a lectureship on the same significant subject. The Disciples Divinity House at the University of Chicago was made sponsor...
Howard A. Coffin, 62, humorous, hefty general manager of the White Star Division of the Socony Vacuum Oil Co.; winner for the Republicans in Detroit's poor, melting-pot 13th District...
...months American businessmen had operated in China in a kind of legal vacuum, created by the U.S.'s renunciation of extraterritoriality in 1943. This week they were back on firmer ground, although the "Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation" between the U.S. and China, signed recently at Nanking, did not restore the old license for freebooting exploitation...
...seven weeks, the hottest spot in baseball-managing the New York Yankees-was empty. Manhattan sportswriters, who abhor a vacuum, rushed in to fill it. They bandied such names as Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, Frank Frisch and Jimmy Dykes. In one week, three sports pages, each professing to be closest to the horse's mouth, named three different...