Word: customs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Custom-made from the last kit of carburetor wrenches in its Winnipeg shop to its corps of well-drilled, 9540-125 Ib. hostesses, Trans-Canada Air Lines is piloted by 40 veteran Canadian airmen who were instructed for a year by U. S. airline veterans. First scheduled night flights last week followed a course that had an emergency field every 35 miles, a major airport with radio range every...
...same day at 1:30 in the afternoon the Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals . . . will enter in a procession in the order of seniority into the conclave, where all the rest will be performed according to custom...
Dueling is no longer a college custom even at Heidelberg, but at tiny Blue Ridge College in New Windsor, Md., Freshmen George Deaton and George List stole into the college gymnasium one dawn last week, began to make grim preparations. While the two freshmen stripped to the waist, companions found a pair of French fencing épées, pulled off the protective tips, sterilized the points. Business: a duel. Challenger: Freshman List. Prize: the favor of a blonde Blue Ridge co-ed known as "Little Miss America...
...ardent winter sports fan, Princess Fawziya reportedly fell in love with the Crown Prince during a holiday trip to Switzerland two years ago. Like modern-minded young Queen Farida she wears the veil, in deference to Moslem custom, but lets it hang loosely about her neck...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 23--Two representatives of Harvard University and three undergraduates will be special guests at the annual dinner of University of Pennsylvania's Sphinx Senior Society. Harvard is being honored according to the Society's custom of paying tribute to a sister University each year...