Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Consider the future: poor Bronson, being unbearably average, will submit his completed questionnaire for admission to Philosophy 199 (Philosophy of the Beat Generation, MWF (11:17 p.m.). His application will be refused imediately, because with blue eyes (Category 16-A), Bronson failed to meet SR (Stat Reg) 299-Q mean distribution. The instructor in Government 101 (Political Theory of the Beat Generation, TT (S), 9 a.m.) will not accept Bronson as a student because too many Democrats have applied, upsetting the PB (Partisan Balance) quota. So it will go. Bronson will be rejected by every instructor, from Professor Gravel...
...firm confidence that the value of the dollar will be reasonably stable in the years ahead." What that really meant was that the U.S., in the absence of any reasonable hope for a relaxation of cold-war tensions, must go on trimming its fiscal sheets for a long beat to windward...
...hardly mattered that the Russians turned out to have some human frailties, e.g., their offense was so strictly patterned that it often stalled against an unexpected defense. After warming up with a 5-5 tie with the Nationals in New York, the Russians went on to beat them 8-3 in Minneapolis, 7-1 in Hibbing, Minn. Last week the Russians outclassed an all-star team of Michigan and Michigan State players, trounced Colorado College before being held to a surprising 4-4 tie by the University of Denver. Said Coach Anatoli Tarasov, beaming amiably: "It's the sportsmanship...
Crimson high jumpers Kelvin Kean, John deKiewiet, and freshman Marty Beckwith will have to better their prevous marks by far to beat the amazing John Thomas of B.U., who leaped 6 ft., 11 in. for a new world indoor record his last time...
...story has become as stylized an art form as the western. According to the rules, good spies, like cowboys, always win: Boris Morros is one of those who lived to tell how he beat the paper rustlers of the NKVD...