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Only last week, in his State of the Union Address, President Reagan cited Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 as the arch enemy of welfare. The selective right-wing memory seems to forget who created the American welfare state in the first place...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: No Way To Treat A Hero | 2/12/1986 | See Source »

...team is now 4-4 and has an important meet coming up Saturday against arch-rival Cornell. "If we could be 1-20," Coach John Lee said about the rivalry, "I would be happy if the one win was over Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matmen 4th At Tourney | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

Much of 20th century American design seems to have been animated by two competing impulses. One is a kind of mannered childishness, a sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...pieces of flint sharpened against harder stones. Because of the inconvenience of these razors, however, the practice of walking clean-shaven didn't really catch on until 356 B.C. when bronze razors were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century European Reformation brought "a clean-shaven look" along with a new approach to eternal...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Where the World Learns to Shave | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...women, just coming off a big upset of arch-rival Brown last Tuesday, the meet was a chance to swim in a less pressured situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Experiment At Yale-Hosted Tourney | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

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