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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are now no non-veteran Freshmen living outside the Yard. Veterans of '52 will move into vacancies as they occur, Fenn explained, on a voluntary basis. He said there was no way of knowing how many vacancies would appear during the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Freshmen to Get Yard Rooms | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

Sunlight struck Vag full in the face and chased him under a pillow. Groping for air, he edged out from under his feathery bunker only to meet the day again. He spun and twisted his way under the sheets but they rolled with him; the light searched out his eyelids, wrestled with them and forced them open. Vag was awake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...tenderly slit the top of the envelope and turned it over. No stamps. Disfranchised for lack of postage, Vag thought, and wondered how many others had been affected the same way. No one had ever warned him about the six cents Poll Tax administered by the Post Office Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

Somebody said he lived at 10 Apathy Way and was undecided, and somebody else said that he had to vote for Thurmond because Eiscuhower isn't running. And that winds up the poll's comic output, except that I forgot to say that Calvin Coolidge also got a vote, and just in case even this master stroke of wit leaves you glum, it at least should remind you that when Dorothy Parker heard that Coolidge had died, she asked "How can they tell...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

Wellesley tuition is finally going the way of all college tuitions up. A $200 boost, slated to come into effect next fall, will boost the fee to $1600. The announcement of the long-delayed increase came from President Mildred McAfee Horton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Ups Tuition | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

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