Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet since 1948, 'the Parker House is busy again. Banquets and teas and youth rallies fill the ballrooms, red-faced men in chalk stripe suits, with homburgs and cigars fill the lobby, smoke fills a dozen rooms from the eighth floor up. Across the street, a sound truck blaring MacNamara's Band disturbs the Puritan graves in the Old Granary Burying Ground. The vacant sides of buildings are plastered with candidates faces, and every gutter has a collection of campaign propaganda. It's election time in Boston, again...
...young man is nowhere to be found in the latest collection "And On the Eighth Day." Apparently Dean has had done with introspection and now contents himself with satiring man's stupidities and vanities. At any rate were seldom encounter ourselves in the cartoons. It seems that the trial of gazing on this chaos within and without has left him too weak to finish off his sketches, for they remain rough lines and only half grayed in. Abner Dean's world in all its nakedness is still good for a shutter if not so good for a laugh...
Idie Notre Dame held the national college football leadership over the weekend, according to the Associated Press's weekly poll of sports writers, with Army second, Oklahoma third, and California fourth. Cornell ranks eighth and Princeton, with four votes, thirtieth...
John Pankey was eighth yesterday, second for Harvard, with Bill Everett next for the Crimson in tenth place...
Harris said that while the colleges are getting approximately the same amount of gifts as in pre-war years, those donations do only one-eighth as much work. He attributed this depreciation to increased national income and price levels, and to the fact that these gifts must support "about four times as many students as before...