Word: decker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is important is that students be consulted somehow and that this poll be framed in such a way as to provide the maximum variety of deconversion choices. While no one likes sleeping in double-decker bunks, there are merits to "converted" suites beyond the cheaper prices. "Crowding" makes roommates of three, four, and five possible in situations where only two or three students lived in lonely privacy during the thirties. If nothing else, Quincy House has shown that four-man living arrangements are comfortable, providing the individual can have privacy when he wants...
...gutters filled with filthy green water. The mother had only two clay pots for cooking, a few plates, no silverware. Candles were the only light at night; the bathroom was a hole in one wall. Wooden tables were used as beds, stacked one atop the other like double-decker berths. The man who kept his family thus imprisoned was Rafael Perez Hernandez, 54, husband and father, by profession a purveyor of homemade rat poison...
Although the renovated rooms will resemble those recently modernized in Thayer North, Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, said that a number of additional improvements are contemplated. Among the changes being considered is the installation of couch beds to replace the double-decker type now in many Freshman dormitories...
Other members include Roberta F. Colman '59, of Cambridge; Julie A. Decker '59, of Moors Hall and Brookline; Alison M. Keith '59, of Barnard Hall and Rochester, Minn.; Anne H. Layzer '59, of Cambridge and Chestnut Hill; Alice C. Pepper '59, of Moors Hall and New York City; Nancy L. Proger '59, of Comstock Hall and Brookline; and Nancy C. Stein '59, of Whitman Hall and Winnetka...
...space left on the Lake Como ferry at Gravedona, Italy, and a little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain...