Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army's West Pointers are the second best team in the country, according to a poll released by the Associated Press last night. Notre Dame led the Cadets by 30 points in the sampling of sports editors...
Students who can't pay their bills at Stillman Infirmary may derive benefit from still another scholarship, and last but not least, the freshman resident of Stoughton Hall who makes the best permanent improvement in his living quarters this year will be in line for a tidy little sum come June...
...Hair of 'is 'ead." The notebooks show that the old butler's best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles...
...Heaven, the fourth of these to be published in the U.S., ranks with his best. It has the excitement of a good spy thriller, but as in all Charles Williams' stories the figures in the chases and counter-chases are the fleshed souls of men & women, some striving to be saved, some bent on being damned. Not all readers will relish Williams' metaphysics, or find his book easy to follow. But most will know they have been in the company of a writer to remember...
...final quarter the Crimson put on a rally. Only one goal actually materialized, but in comparison with the earlier periods, the fourth period showed the Crimson at its best...