Word: vag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago may be known as the Windy City, but Cambridge is becoming plenty draftee." Vag shivered, turning up his coat collar and thrusting his registration card deep into his pocket. It was a warm day, but Vag could feel a rising wind, a wind which had started somewhere on the plains of Poland, had engulfed half the world in a hurricane of destruction and which was even now spoiling the sun along Mt. Auburn Street. Vag knew there was no use trying to escape; this was not the kind of wind one could clude by retreating' to the books...
...your pardon--d--these things." Vag had hardly felt the bump given to him by the flustered young man in new tweeds, but he found himself helping him to pick up the jumbled mass of desk blotters, catalogues and sample newspapers dropped by his excited assailant. "Freshman, I presume?" he queried. "You bet, the Class of '45 is here,"--and the nit was suddenly off and down the street...
...tomorrow morning Vag will temporarily discard his reading period slothfulness and at 9 o'clock he will walk into New Lecture Hall, take off his hat, and hear Professor Roger Bigelow Merriman, God of the course for two decades, give his last lecture in History...
...matter of fact, Vag thought, as he ransacked his memory, those two sentences were about all of the contents of the course he remembered. Some damn battle in 732 and an emperor crossing the Alps to kiss a Pope's big toe, that was about the sum of the facts he had gleaned...
...Vag knew he'd learned a lot from the course. Not facts, no, but a certain savoir-faire that had served him in the best of stead in all the courses he had taken. He had picked up the knack of taking lecture notes and he had discovered that you could and should get away with a minimum of reading. He had learned how to tell what was the important part of a lecture or a chapter. The course had taught him how to get down to work and how to organize a disturbing disarray of dates and names...