Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buck Duke; who died in 1925, had thought of just about everything. Counting subsequent Duke endowment funds (and previous family gifts to Trinity), the Duke benefactions amounted, in time, to more than $50 million. The only thing that money couldn't buy overnight was a solid academic reputation...
Appointed hospitality representatives in each dormitory will handle arrangements for girls planning to stay overnight in the dormitories...
...depressing aspect of the dispute was that it could have been settled overnight with no apparent injury to either side. It would cost Ben Fairless nothing more to waive his condition of worker contributions. Fairless pointed out that it would cost most of the workers nothing more in the long run to kick in a few cents; many of them were already contributing to pension and insurance funds. Pension money would belong to them as surely as if they had put it in a savings bank...
Students owning ears in the Cambridge area might just as well sell their jalopies and buy unicycles. Unicycles don't need much parking space at night. Cars do. And in a week the Cambridge police force starts its annual campaign against overnight parking. Carowners have that long to sign up with the high-priced garages and parking lots around the Square; then the men in blue uniforms move in to tag the remaining cars and have them towed away...
...Boston side of the Charles, students operate close to 1000 vehicles with varying degrees of frequency. And while many of them park in off-the-street garages and use their ears only infrequently, many others drive to and fro throughout Cambridge and leave their vehicles in the streets overnight...