Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston organization, and he went out of his way to aid Cambridge in setting up its branch. The enrollment that first year topped 300, and the organizers were encouraged into expanding the following year. More rooms were turned over to classes and the basement was made into a well-equipped workshop, while the number of courses grew steadily. In 1940, the Center broke away from the Boston organization and set itself up as an independent Brach of the Social Union...
...addition to providing a casual atmosphere conducive to voluntary study, the Center is well stocked with top-quality instructors. The investment course, for instance, is conducted by Ralph B. Dibble, account executive for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Beane and an instructor at Boston University. A course in contract bridge is given by Forrest N. Maddix, an authorized teacher of the Culbertson System, while William Drake, staff artist on the Christian Science Monitor, offers instruction in cartooning and newspaper drawing...
Before an audience of over 150, the chairman of the Committee on Admissions stated that Harvard's desire to get a well-rounded student body led it to have "flexible" standards in accepting men. Under certain conditions, he pointed out, Harvard will accept a boy who has taken a commercial or industrial course in school...
...rotary, complete with flowers and grass, will have a 35-foot diameter. Cambridge police pointed out that it will greatly ease the flow of Massachusetts Avenue traffic as well as reduce the danger of collisions at the five-street intersection. Resurfacing work will continue down into Harvard Square...
...typical American girl was well-dressed, with new-look skirts (many European women have not converted), and page-boy hairdo. She carried her valuables in a handbag with an over- the-shoulder strap, a device unheard of abroad. Gentlemen on the street would stop to give her a long appreciative stare, a stare which began at her feet and worked its way leisurely...