Word: bane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another bane of the scheduling department are the professors who change rooms without telling anyone but a few privileged students. Such a one was the object of a frantic search several years ago. An Overseer of the University, hearing of this professor's excellent delivery, wanted to pay him a visit. Neither the class nor the professor were in their appointed room, and the would-be visitor was rather put out. Upon contacting the errant professor's department, Kennedy found that he had notified it of his intention to change rooms. Another visit by the Overseer to the new location...
Wealthy students who come to college with no particular end in mind and who "are inclined to waste time and money on what passes for a college education" are the bane of the present American college system, President Conant writes in a recent issue of Newsweek...
...school. Pockets bulging with Sawyerian equipment ("Fishhooks, twine, white alleys and other marvels, Barlow knives, jew's-harps, hunks of maple sugar, birds' eggs, potato guns, and perhaps a picture of Adam and Eve without a rag"), Sam was soon leader of the school gang and the bane of his teacher's existence...
...FRED W. BANE Springfield...
...BANE, Tufts College senior, who tossed the 35-lb. weight for a new meet record of 59 ft. 4½ in. (18½ in. short of the world record Bane set earlier in the week in a dual meet with Brown...