Word: alling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the stockings will be hung from the chimney with more care this year. For it seems that an anthropologist (it never matters who in these accounts) discovered the origin of St. Nicholas in a primitive fertility god--truly a shock for those of us who have regarded the great...
Perhaps Santa ought to be left alone for a while, like a Passion Play one takes out of mothballs only every ten years or so. In the meantime, we can make do with Christmas trees and holly, turkeys, cranberry sauce and mistletoe (which is, thank goodness, only a plant). Then...
Vermont conditions are as follows: East Burke, Burke Mt. 2 to 6 base, 3 packed powder, skiing fair to good. All lifts operating; Shelburne, Killington Basin, 6 to 10, one new powder, poor to fair; Stowe, Mt. Mansfield, 12 to 24, 2 new powder, fair to good.
The squash team did it again yesterday, sweeping nine official and two practice matches from an M.I.T. squad that could win only one game all night.
Out of all this the varsity emerged with a smashing 81-28 triumph. After 30 minutes, the outcome of the encounter was never in doubt.