Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio's grand old (55) announcers whose autobiography, This Is Norman Brokenshire, was published last month, announced that he is hard at work on a sequel. It will tell how some 50 of Broke's fellow Alcoholics Anonymous conquered booze, as Broke did after a two-decade bout with the bottle. The new book's title: Coming Through...
...registered with the school, and discovered borrowing brings a revocation of driving rights. Girls are thereby forbidden to drive on two counts, which means that if a male enters a condition in which he cannot conduct his date or vehicle home from what is, for him, a legal drinking bout, the couple, by College regulation, is stranded...
...general education by providing a body of common knowledge that will serve as a basis for later specialization in any particular field. A certain amount of lectures are still given to provide background material: Professor George Taylor who heads the new sophomore American Studies course calls them "a bout with traditionalism." At the heart of the curriculum are seminar sections based on the principle of "learning through doing...
...contest for the softball supremacy of the intellectual world. The occasion is the annual picnic of the Society of Fellows, a University group established in the thirties for "the unregimented cultivation of scholarly genius." While most of the Society's members would deny any cosmic significance to the coming bout, still, as one of the humanists points out, last year they held the scientists to a dead draw...
Stake-Out. In Philadelphia, Police Captain Clarence Ferguson watched Lightweight Boxer Al Pennell suffer a technical knockout in a semifinal bout, waited for Pennell in the dressing room, arrested him on a robbery charge...