Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounds painless; but on a day like yesterday, opening day for book authorizations, when some 4,000 undergraduate and graduate veterans filed through Mem Hall and converged, authorizations in hands, on the Square, it isn't. During rush hours, the Square stores catering to the G.I. set take on the aspect of the Times Square station at 5 p.m., and perspiring salesmen descend from their stacks in many cases only to tell their perspiring customers that a book is (1) sold out, (2) out-or-print, (3) on order, or (4) just plain, ordinary, everyday unobtainable
...jobs all good for the expectable number of laughs. "Don't Be a Woman if You Can" is first-rate patter and "There's No Holding Me" likeable ballad. But there's no getting around something stale--you've heard it before, you've seen it before, and it isn't good enough this time to make you think you haven...
...Isn't that what the Security Council is for? . . . Maybe you've just seen a faint sign that U.S. diplomacy is growing...
There's a glimmer of genuine pre-war Harvard around Cambridge these days, and it isn't House food. A glance at that high board fence circling the practices field out at Soldiers Field tells you that something of the good old days, the Irivial old days, is back. Just the fact of that fence is sort of reminiscent: before you even reach for your press pass you push football up out of its three-year hideout, onto the front page. Sure there was a Yale game last year (0-28), but that. . .well...
...note, under National Affairs [TIME, Aug. 12], that our recent Congress has allocated $30 million to buy automobiles for amputees. Swell, I certainly am in accord with the idea. What I would like to know is, isn't that a rather excessive amount? Figuring $1,600 to a car, it would mean . . . that there are 18,750 amputees to receive cars. Are there that many amputees...