Word: bi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as a boy in Nebraska, Bion ("Bi") Shively was crazy over horses. By the time he was twelve, he was a full-fledged jockey, booting them home at the county fairs. At 17, Bi quit jockeying and transferred his affections to harness racing, a sport in which oldsters have long excelled. But a kid rider's hell-for-leather zest could not make do for the good, grey experience required to steer a careering sulky behind a winning trotter or pacer. Bi was still learning the rudiments of the harness sport in 1898 when he was called...
...Committee on Educational Policy appointed a 10-man faculty sub-committee headed by Dean Bender which then issued a 133-page report in the fall of 1950. This so-called Bender Report recommended decentralization of the Dean's Office appointing House Deans (name later changed to Senior Tutors), and bi-weekly group tutorial for all undergraduates...
Ironically, it would be hard to find an economist so averse to giving advice (especially to politicians) as Leontief himself. It is time to make a science of economics," he says. Economists have wasted too much time trying to advice like lawyers." He shuns Washington (he commuted bi-weekly from Boston during the war, when he was Chief of Russian Economic Sub-division of OSS), where "everyone is political." Their minds are trained to ask always, 'How to do it?' I am interested only to answer, How does it work?'" Nevertheless, he readily admits that the argument of his critics...
Approximately 100 Radcliffe alumnae visited the Annex Yard and Quad over the weekend, for the bi-annual Conference of Radcliffe Representatives. Delegates represented individual classes and Radcliffe clubs from all over the nation...
...that the pattern of conformity in men's spring fashions has always been pleasantly easy to follow for a Harvard man. Chino pants are cheap and tough. Wash and pressed they look as bright and tidy as a crew on the Charles. Dirty and ragged, they are acceptable at bi-sexual picnics, at softball games along the river, and in the chem...