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...best way to weed through the list of bargains is to work through a student organization, such as the National Student Association. A worldwide group formed in 1947, the N.S.A. reports on the "deals" as encountered by its members. N.S.A. literature, bearing an appropriate "tours but not tourists" on the frontispiece, is available at Phillips Brook House...
...merely ineffectual. They like music, love dogs, hate snobbery and believe in family loyalty, but their will and ambition have gone soft. A bit decayed yet not decadent, they are rather like their 1,000-acre summer estate, an impressive old place that is slowly turning to weed...
...centuries, Britain's poets have sung of Oxford's "dreaming spires"; but they have done some worrying about them, too. Shops and factories have been creeping in upon the spires like jungle weed-"a base and brickish skirt," cried Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1879, that "sours that neighbor-nature thy grey beauty is grounded best in . . ." Last week the base and brickish skirt was creating a bitterer furor than ever. The center of the storm: the Oxford and District...
...Weed Killer. A new weed killer called CMU was put on the market by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. When the powder is applied heavily, it kills all plant life, keeps soil sterile for more than a year, is thus useful for clearing railroad tracks, outside storage areas, etc. Used in smaller amounts, du Font's new product attacks weeds only, permits such crops as sugar cane, cotton, corn, asparagus or carrots to flourish...
...tried to date her; 2) put his feet on a desk in the school office, lit a fresh cigar and called the principal "Skinny"; 3) picked a fight with the toughest kid in school and whaled him into quivering wreckage. Garza spoke knowingly of his ability to "blow the weed" (smoke marijuana), within the week had been nicknamed "Weedhead" and was the swaggering leader of the worst element in the institution...