Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very young and its editorial staff was small. Then, a major crisis in transportation could disrupt the copy for an entire issue. OldTIMErs also like to recall the days when they worked in an old office building on East 40th Street. No other tenant worked there over the weekend, so in winter there was no heat. They made out, somehow, despite the fact that it was impossible to run a typewriter with mittens...
...paid off by tuition fees (averaging $120 a student), ticket sales to festival concerts, and gifts. More than 100 students are there under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Aaron Copland, Koussevitzky's assistant director, trains eight young composers. Koussevitzky himself teaches three people how to conduct. At weekend concerts he listens carefully to their conducting efforts. Says he: "I see if they adopt what I tell them or whether they not. Then we begin again...
Another reason for refusal of the plan was that in the past the University has taken into consideration the fact that the weekend is the period of greatest absenteeism and had compensated for this fact both in running the dining halls and in charging the students...
Investigations of complaints turned in at 14 Plympton Street during the weekend revealed that most restaurateurs were "holding the line" except where they yielded to a combination of customer demand pressure and wholesale price rises...
...civil servants streamed out of Government offices shutting down for the four-day Fourth of July weekend authorized by Congress, Mr. & Mrs. Truman left the White House in a car for President Roosevelt's Shangri-La, a lodge in the Catoctin Mountains, 60 miles from Washington. With them was unobtrusive Lieut. Commander William Rigdon, up from the ranks, now assistant to the naval aide. There were no other attendants. There was no motorcade and no newsmen. At the lodge the Trumans had fried chicken for supper, took in a movie, were abed...