Word: among
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter's first freezing storms blew eastward last week down the Rocky Mountain slopes, whipped snow flurries across the Great Plains wheatlands, swirled into the Midwest's corn-hog belt. Farmers, their 1959 row crops in, and a little leisure time at hand, began to talk among themselves, on street corners, in grange halls, in bunking rooms, in the circles around the stockyard stoves. As always, the talk was about how hard it is to make a dollar. But this year the talk had the extra heat and urgency that come with falling farm prices. Farm-belt politicians...
...CRIMSON also noted, "Spectators to the number of 2,000 were gathered on Yale's new athletic grounds on witness the match. Among them were about thirty Harvard men, who went down from Cambridge, and several others, graduates, who come on with ladies from New York, Boston, and elsewhere." They knew they would see a one sided contest, since earlier the same year, Yale had opened its series with Dartmouth handing the Big Green a 113-0 licking...
...seven ties. Today, the teams are more evenly matched than at any other time since 1954. The Crimson has not yet completely made up for the 1957 debacle, and for the many seniors on the squad--including Boulris, Cullen, captain Hank Keohane, Jerry Weidler, Dave Cappiello, and Sam Halaby among the starters--this afternoon's contests is the last chance to erase some nagging memories
...CRIMSON, which has somehow acquired a reputation for excessive rigor among its readers, had the same editor on hand for opening night as had previously reviewed the text of the play with deep qualms about the verse. He underwent a positively Pauline conversion. "A great play given a great production has come to Broadway," the Harvard community was told; "one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them.... Here is a playright who is not afraid of beautiful literate language, and none too soon. He has rejuvenated the anemic field of Poetic Drama Since Shakespeare...
...Committee, formed by President Jordan last November, has also made a study of the possibility of mixed tutorial. Most significant among its findings, according to Dean Elliott, was "an over-whelming sentiment in favor of mixed tutorial" among the head tutors of the eight departments having the greatest number of Radcliffe concentrators...