Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the same time, Anderson was writing the first of his famous college medleys. These met with such unqualified success that soon afterwards he took a tune from the hit Of Thee I Sing and converted it into a Crimson Wintergreen, which has since become a sort of colloquial alma mater...
...Greek-god pose (in a bathing suit) before displaying his diving and swimming skills to news photographers. He also celebrated the publication of his own summing up, A Philosophy for Our Time, a series of four sage lectures on 20th century democracy and capitalism, delivered earlier at his alma mater, the City College of New York. Baruch's central idea: "We in America have sought our goal of equality for all not by pulling everyone down to the same level, as happened elsewhere, but by giving everyone an opportunity to rise...
...perched "several hundred feet above the southern extremity of Cayuga Lake," as one official publication anatomically describes it, has long had the reputation of being one of the most scenic in the United States. On esthetic grounds alone, Cornell students show pardonable pride when they sing of their "noble alma mater, Glorious to view...
...Worried that their alma mater's name suffered by comparison with those of other privately endowed Ivy League colleges (e.g., Yale, Harvard, Princeton), the University of Pennsylvania's Gazette began polling alumni to find out whether it was time for a change. Biggest complaint: people in other states believe Pennsylvania is a state institution, do not consider attending it, "consequently any prestige that might accrue to our alumni as graduates of a private institution is lost...
...Shippers Kenneth Dawson and William Sexton, Builders Harry Morrison and Stephen Bechtel, Oilman Richard Hanna and Philippine Industrialist Andres Soriano. - Named for Cuffe's alma mater, the University of California. A golden bear on a blue background is also the line's trademark...