Word: beards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed economist and ex-Minister of Finance, was not on hand to greet visitors; Communist Minister of Education Zdenek Nejedly had kicked him out. Presiding instead was Nejedly's choice as rector, leftist Mathematician Bohumil Bydzovsky, 68, who looked like a kindly Santa Claus with his snow-white beard and ceremonial red robe...
Students whose card tastes run only as far as Seven Card Stud, or even the more elite Contract flends may be interested to learn that the University owns a pack of Hindustani cards invented by a queen to prevent her husband from pulling out the hairs in his beard...
...round cards divided into eight suits, the Hindustani pack is called "Gunja-Kha," which means "relieving scalp." The suits bear such names as Ghulam, or slave, end Burart, or royal diploma, and the king, by keeping his hands busy playing cards, was unable to scratch his head or beard, keeping baldness at a minimum...
Jerome T. Kilty '50, who takes the role of King Richard, has contributed heavily to the expected success of the production. In addition to the 40 pounds of padding and beard he carried last fall as Falstaff in Henry IV, he has sacrificed 17 pounds of his own flesh by concentrated diet and exercise for his new part...
...Warns Beard: "If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of American foreign affairs, the Constitution may be nullified by the President, officials, and officers who have taken the oath, and are under moral obligation to uphold it. For limited government under supreme law they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which, it has been alleged, World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government...