Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They used to serve coffee and conversation in the common room after dinner, but this custom has given way during the last term to the television hour, which lasts all night and draws bored policemen and Cambridge gamins as well as a good portion of the House residents. All in all, Winthrop has the best television setup in the College to go with its other superlative attributes
Bosses of Havana's embattled bus company, the Cooperativa de Omnibus Aliados, have suffered and bled for years over the old Cuban custom of filtración. Under this time-honored racket, unscrupulous conductors on the company's rickety, orange-painted guaguas (pronounced wah-wahs) have filtered up to 40% of each day's fares into their own pockets. Last year, in a desperate effort to replace the conductors with temptation-proof turnstiles, the company offered to retire all surplus conductors at full pay. Their union-the Sindicato de Empleados de Omnibus Aliados-refused...
...schools, and persuaded Norfolk to pay the same salaries to Negro and white schoolteachers. On only a few occasions has the Guide used the frontal attack. After a Negro was convicted of raping a white woman and condemned to death, the Guide decided he was innocent. It defied local custom by printing the woman's name. A white man read the story, gave testimony that proved the case was a frame...
These two measures are part of a program of revived activity planned by Phi Beta Kappa. The group also intends to revive its custom of annually publishing a specially chosen honors thesis, he stated...
...flashy dust-jackets on its issues in an apparent attempt to cover up the deteriorating quality of its insides. The catalogue of Modern Library is still without equal, but Rinchart's thick paper at least allows the student to read only one page at a time, a fine old custom that Modern Library readers long ago gave up when they once mastered the technique of reading page 2 through page...