Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After breakfast, Vag rolled up Bow Street and went bump, bump, bump into Sever for his first class. As a non-Honors junior in English, Vag had chosen three large English lecture courses and one of the more popular History courses. None of these had sections or discussion periods; a fact which had formerly dismayed Vag, but which now rather cheered him. Resting against one wall, his recording mechanism purring quietly as the professor spoke, Vag felt a contentment he had never known before...
...Cornell fumble early in the second half set up the next varsity score. Taylor bobbled a handoff on his own 35, and Hank Keohane recovered. Six plays later Ravenel went over from the ten to put Harvard two touchdowns ahead...
With the balance between seriousness and social conviviality that supposedly went into its architecture, Quincy House formally opened last night...
...drove right into a million dollars when he began trading in oil leases, was wiped out in 1921, when oil prices tumbled, made another fortune and went broke again early in the Depression, when overproduction in the East Texas fields brought posted prices down to 10? a barrel. He lived on credit, unable to pay either his office rent or his $8 monthly dues at the Fort Worth Club. In 1932, as oil prices began to rise, Sid came out of hibernation...
Died. Donald Marr Nelson, 70, longtime (1912-42) Sears, Roebuck executive who was appointed (1942) by F.D.R. to be chairman of the War Production Board, captained the gigantic wartime industrial effort, went abroad to oversee production in England, China and Russia, resigned (1944) in a huff over what he felt was interference by the military, whom he later accused (Arsenal of Democracy) of trying to control the U.S. economy, became president (1945-47) of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles...