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...soft and womanly Wellesley girl, available for Saturday dates until one o'clock and on other nights until ten or eleven, is the Harvard Freshman's traditional favorite. He will do well to ignore Wellesley's stated preference for Dartmouth, Princeton, and Gonzaga Teachers' College; distant pastures always look greener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley, Radcliffe Wait For Class of '43 With Open Arms | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...collapse wedged her inextricably between the seats, the whole bus had to be driven to the hospital. An unseasonable drought half ruined the strawberry crop (strawberries and clotted Devonshire cream is a favorite English dish this time of year), but the countryside had seldom looked greener. Elsewhere in Europe the heat wave also spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hot | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...time Vag has known lots of Harvard footballers. They are pretty human and they have fun and some of them like symphony, too. Maybe some of them write, or would like to write, sentimental stuff like Vag does. The other fellow's pasture may seem greener to them, too, and so maybe they can understand why the Vag feels like playing football these days. Especially on Saturdays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

Britishers will see him on the stage, hear him broadcast more expensively from Radio Normandie, Radio Luxembourg (continental stations which carry sponsored programs in English). In leaving BBC for greener pastures, he follows the lead of Band Leaders Jack Payne, Henry Hall, Variety Director Eric Maschwitz, many another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Greener Pastures | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Seek Greener Gutters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Will Ugly Lampoon Building Obstruct Mount Auburn Street | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

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