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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys played it rough all afternoon, collecting seven penalties, but to no avail. Clarkson Potter scored on a pass from Winkie Childs early in the first period, and the Yardlings were never headed...
...administration and the Student Council point out that very few students now avail themselves of the hours from 1 to 4 for entertaining women. This is all the more reason for keeping that time of day free for women to enter the Houses. Many of those students who study, talk, or listen to records with women early in the afternoon do so because their own particular schedules prevent them from doing so conveniently at any other time. The few women who come into the Houses at that period cause no disturbance to other students and could hardly be thought...
...science; and every superior teacher, like every superior artist, though he may begin by imitation, eventually develops his own individual style . . . Like the actor, the teacher must . . . throw himself into his part-but he has to walk his stage alone! Rules and systems will avail him little. Only his personality can make him successful...
...tale of striking workmen, and La Terre, a brutal epic of farm life. For 25 years, as his books peddled the "black poetry" of pessimism and garbled heredity under the name of hard fact, men of state and men of letters rose to protest-but not to much avail-that Zola was lying. Millions read Zola's books...
...rioters began to pull trolley poles from the wires, the police trotted out their trusty tear gas guns. They fired the gas right into the face of the crowd, but to no avail except for the fainting of one woman...