Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...door, six carnation-wearing salesmen handed out free chances on a television set, plus a crisp sales chat--Smarter, Safer, Greater in Value, one-third down and 15 months to pay, and look at that chrome. As Pesky and Harris and the salesmen moved among the crowd wearing neat name-plates and dispensing raffle tickets the affair took on the conviviality of a bargain basement. And bargains there were, judging from numerous dark nods toward Porter Square's used car lot across the street. When trading closed for the day, only one of the new cars remained unsold and there...
...their time to the exteriors and engines, most of the women concentrated on the upholstery. Some showed a lack of reverence toward the whole show, as did one female who stopped a salesman in mid-spiel by nudging her husband and saying. "Let's go buy a TV set." If they did, they were foolish. They should have waited for the raffle...
...present physical plant of Harvard Medical looks like M.I.T. set up on a small hill. Heavy Greek architecture and columns feature the massive, U-shaped external view. In the center is the Administration Building, Building A, which houses the Dean's Offices of the Medical School and the School of Dental Medicine, the Alumni Office, the Office of Graduate Courses, the Business Office, the joint library of the Medical School and the School of Public Health, and the Warren Museum, which has, among other displays, large tanks full of specimens of human hands...
...Faculty and the Deans really have the respect for undergraduate freedom which they so often profess, they will approve the present set of rules with only minor polishing. If they attempt to introduce extraneous and unnecessary restrictions, as they have done' twice before, their good faith in this whole matter will be open to question...
Those are the only items that make the front pages, however. There is another part of the story seldom set in type. Otherwise City Manager John B. Atkinson could hardly say, as he does, "I think we enjoy a rather pleasant relationship," while his Council is debating the Reducators list at the other end of City Hall...