Word: week-ends
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AMERICA yelped Monday morning headlines to catch the foggy attention of a population going back to work after the week-end leisure. The population shivered with excitement, devoured the columns. Devouring they found the sentence: "The pilots served in the armies of the Central Powers during the War." The population figuratively and (along the Northeastern coast literally) packed housetops to cheer the oncoming Germans. . . . At 3 p. m. Sunday favorable weather reports sent the word sizzling over Germany that two Junkers monoplanes would start for the U. S. Cornelius Edzard and Johann Risticz, Herman Koehl and Friederich Loose, flyers...
...there was placed before the passage quoted another which altered, almost reversed its meaning. Correspondents did not quote this key passage in the original transmission, and it only came to light, 48 hours late, when the New York Times had the whole 9,000 word speech cabled at thrifty week-end rates...
...would be attracted to the project if it were made possible for them to pay only for the meals which they actually take? Why can't meal tickets be issued which would be punched until used up? Men who sleep late in the morning and who leave Cambridge every week-end can hardly be expected to pay for twenty-one meals per week when they take only...
With the return of Monday accompanied by a cold, dull rain, all the lighter joys of a warm May week-end disappear as completely as the sun itself. Putting aside thoughts of brighter costumed baseball heroes, of a blue clad runner valiantly battling up the back stretch against baffling breeze, and of far off dreams engendered by the atmosphere of the Pops, the Vagabond will again wander forth into the Yard this morning his eye on Harvard Hall, his mind full of history. For without stirring out of this ancient center of Harvard life nor shifting his mind from...
...Anastos, and F. B. Thurber, with G. M. Parker as alternate. Those debating Princeton at Princeton, will be E. H. Hubbard, R. H. Sharp and P. D. Silverman, M. W. Mansur will act as alternate. These men left Cambridge yesterday for Princeton, where they will be entertained over the week-end by the Princeton Debating Council...