Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This country is the best country the greatest country, in the world," and added that "No other country would put up with these hippies with their hair down to you know where...
...first thing necessary for a happy progress in business, is prudence or discretion . This, as it relates to trade, is an habit of mind enabling us to conduct our affairs in the wisest and best manner; or, in other words, it is pursuing the proper end by the best means, and in the fittest time. It is not that serpentine craft, which lies in wait to captivate the unwary, impose upon the credulons, and over-reach the weak understanding, and which teaches men to increase their wealth by injustice and fraud. God has given to no man superior wisdom...
...although I had escaped the trees, I wasn't out of the woods. There was still my operatic ignorance to contend with. So, making every effort to summon up my best Jacksonianly Democratic facade, I settled back, confident that the very commonness of my heart would ferret out a couple of passable truths or, at very least, an exploitable metaphor...
That being the case, then, you'll have to admit that the G and S Players make the best of a good thing. Although their styles of comic acting are wildly erratic. when any-and. eventually, all-of the company fall into the dozens of wonderfully silly danc? steps that are sprinkled amid the song, there is little one can do but surrender to the general frivolity of the occasion...
Dartmouth's first line of Chico Davidson Jeff Kosak and Steve Arndt is fairly potent, but is newly formed, and at its best, should not compare with either of Harvard's first two lines, unless the Crimson performs as poorly as it did Thursday night...