Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scanned the highways last week, watching for the jalopy caravans of Arkies and Okies-which haven't appeared. Sugar-beet farmers need their help now: they have more than 1,000,000 acres of beets to be blocked and thinned. Other farmers are waiting, too. After beets, in rapid succession the Okies are needed to cut hay and clover, plant soybeans, start harvesting oats, wheat and barley. But the migrants have disappeared like the Egyptians in the Red Sea. The farmers don't know what's become of their wandering field hands. Perhaps they have no tires...
...Harvard's handsomest man, footballer Don Forte, last evening, after he had been prematurely selected by the Adams House Committee as Miss Moore's "prettiest" choice from among the Beau Brummels of the Gold Coast. Debonair in palm beach tuxedo instead of shoulder pads, "Handsome Don" wilted under the rapid-fire kisses (Hollywood brand) of Miss Moore as she forced her attentions and the all-College title on the shy young hero...
...Kind of Battle. Naval warfare has changed its ways since Jutland. The Battle of the Coral Sea was not a clash of a whole fleet against another whole fleet. It was a battle of relentless air bombing and the rapid parry-&-thrust of task forces...
...University has been greatly surprised at the prospect of filling the Houses this summer. Back in the hectic days which followed Pearl Harbor the authorities expected a rapid dash to the colors which would thin student ranks and make it impossible for the University to make ends meet. The Dean's Office, therefore, decided to allow students not attending Summer School to keep their, furniture in their rooms by the simple if extravagant expedient of paying rent through the summer months. This it was thought would ease a difficult budget situation...
...They will be mixed indiscriminately with men who have had two or three years of college education, and their isolation will be emphasized by the probable loss of such Freshman activities as PBH meetings and Radcliffe teas. They will come, moreover, from well-regulated secondary school schedules to a rapid-fire accelerated program which requires students to decide almost at once on their courses of study. The lack of instructors to serve as Freshman advisers will further intensify this problem...