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When he started working here as a youngster back in 1898 in Roach Hall, at that time a mineralogy building, he didn't expect to stay around long, but lie's been here 44 years now and he's still as pompous as Snowball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 44 Years as College Janitor, Herbert Knew Lowell, Eliot | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...year-old, six-foot-three-inch youngster who had been writing "mood music" in Hollywood slipped across the U.S.-Canadian border. To a Canadian colonel he said: "I am tired of seeing these other fellers push you guys around," forthwith enlisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Soldier Poet in New Guinea | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...TIME's cover, so somebody suggested that we stop looking for a Man of the Week and pick a Man of the Year. Choice of the Man of 1927 was easy: Hero Charles Augustus Lindbergh, then busily hopping all over North America giving people a look at the youngster who had soloed the Atlantic in only 33 hours and 30 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...seems there was a coeducational youngster who had the misfortune to be cursed with dozens of cousins, sisters and aunts, all of whom had gone to the Institution across the Common. Asked by them where he intended to acquire his liberal education, he replied with all the wisdom of his tender years, "at the Radcliffe Boy's School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Younger Generation Starts New Angle on Coeducation | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...Youngster Nugget sneaks away from his horrible home in Kansas and hitch-hikes in search of his half brother, Gaye Oldaker. He finds Gaye running the roulette wheel in a New Mexico "sporting house" filled with painted ladies whose names are strange to him-Midnight Rose, Drowsy Dolly, Fleabitten Daisy, Rowdy Kate. Gaye Oldaker's lady friend, Tacey Cromwell, runs the establishment. But after Nugget turns up Tacey moves to the copper town of Bisbee, Ariz., where she hopes to leave her "sporting" life behind her, to marry Gaye and make a home for Nugget. The family circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quality Not Quantity | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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