Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite this outward appearance of complete orientation, the girls themselves admit feeling somewhat awkward even after seven months in school. "Although the remarks have stopped," said Charlotte Horwood of Cambridge, "I still feel that a lot of second and third year men haven't accepted us yet. But the first year men have bent over backwards to make things easier," she added...
Even in maturity, long-legged (6 ft. 6 in.) Clarence E. McVey, 49, a carpenter of Graham, N.C. (pop. 5,000) could not forget the misery of his schooldays. He had grown so fast that he towered above all his classmates, was so gangling and awkward that he became the butt of their jokes. He swore that his five-year-old son David, already over four feet tall, would never have to suffer from the family curse of being...
Before his death in Italy two months ago, Sinclair Lewis finished his 22nd and last novel and called it World So Wide. It is an awkward, rambling book, often close to a caricature of Lewis at his best. But it will be read for what it is: "Red" Lewis' valedictory to his fellow Americans...
...Afterthought" by George A. Kelly is a different matter: it is far too elaborate and obscure for my taste, but many of its lines at least make impressions--and mostly favorable ones, though Kelly has a regrettable fondness for words like "defiling," and "infinitely," and a line like "The awkward dignity of death, seems prefabricated...
Princeton lost a basketball game to the varsity last night at the Blockhouse, 64 to 59, for Harvard's biggest upset of the year. Ed Smith ran all around a series of awkward Tiger centers to score 31 points, which proved to be the deciding factor...