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Expressing the fact that the dining hall service is maintained for the students on much the same principle as the Infirmary, since it does not distribute cost proportionally, Reynolds opinion was that the University could not set a special rate for the five-day resident since it would involve speculation as to how many meals he would miss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Rejects Proposal Of 15-Meal-a-Week Contract | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

...there was still the fact that a man saved all his money on The Rock. And the friendly weather belied the old adage that the only perfect climate is bed. After life got stabilized, the men got five-day furloughs every three months in the fleshpots of Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Beachhead on the Moon | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Overtime. In Wilmington, Joseph Andrews, a window cleaner, drew a five-day sentence for after-hour window-peeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Last week Winston Churchill amid a five-day fete of welcome at The Hague made a proposal similar to Briand's. Said Churchill: "We hope that the Western democracies of Europe will draw together in ever closer amity and ever closer association. . . . This ... if found wise, should be pressed from many angles with the utmost perseverance. I see no reason why, under the guardianship of a world organization, there should not ultimately arise the United States of Europe, both of the East and of the West, which will unify this continent in a manner never known since the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: A Little More Real? | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Nyaaa! In Houston, motorists went on a five-day park-anywhere spree. Reason: police had run out of prescribed parking tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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