Word: undershirt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unearthed: an Undershirt. While the bulldozers outside delved into the future, Harvard librarians inside had been digging up their past. In a series of Harvard Library Bulletins (the third issue is now in the works), its staff has begun to tell the story of the second largest* library in the U.S. They unearthed such unsuspected Harvardiana as Henry Adams' course notes and one of ex-President Henry Dunster's undershirts...
...Kelly, once thumpingly in favor of clamping on the price lid, put an ear to the ground. Even Chicago was out of meat, and some 40,000 unemployed packinghouse workers wanted to get back to work. Ed rushed to Washington, redder than a cop's undershirt, to join National Chairman Bob Hannegan and members of the Democratic Party's executive committee at a chicken lunch. What, they asked, could be done...
Carefully Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped...
...undershirt with suspenders down, Carl Spaatz, announced a soldierly decision last week: no politics-he would stick to his own game. The General was interviewed while he was shaving...
...Small pulled off his shirt and undershirt. "First I guess I better shave...