Word: wagon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students had arrived by stagecoach, farm wagon and shanks' mare. Board, reported the chancellor, "need not exceed 80? per week." They ate mostly bread and milk, an occasional fish from Lake Mendota, and, as a "rare treat," roast potatoes. A room in North Hall, the dormitory "on the hill," cost $5 a term; furniture "new from the store," another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance...
...well sleep in ski pants." Amherst parties "are definitely of the beery, spur-of-the-moment variety"; a Holyoke girl once complained that "all they ask you for is to sing tenor in some quartet." Princeton parties are held "in rooms that seem no larger than a small station wagon." And a Yale football weekend is "one continuous cocktail party, punctuated by an occasional dance and an afternoon sitting in the cold to sober...
...year ago last summer, they worked up a bouncy little tune for Bob Hope to twang to Jane Russell while leading a covered-wagon train in a western called The Paleface. Record companies recorded it, then held back on it, as usual, until about ten to twelve weeks before the movie was due for release. Last September the record companies began to let it spin. By last week, Dinah Shore's record of Buttons and Bows was No. 1 on the hit parade. It was just the songwriters' good fortune that by the time their tune finally came...
Extensive practice has been the keynote for the Crimson harriers this week, and Mikkola's makeshift taxi-service--an HAA laundry wagon and his own private car--has been running steadily transporting runners to and from practice grounds around Boston. "We can't go too much trouble if it means a chance of beating Yale," Mikkola asserts. "Twice in a row is too much," Mikkola adds. "I'd hate to see it happen a third time...
Pickup. In Washington, Larimer's Market was boosting its business by literally picking customers up on the streets. It sends out a station wagon to cruise in the store neighborhood every day, bring back pedestrians who hail it at its regular stops...