Word: breaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the real, window-breaker--one of the dozen who escaped--revealed himself to Dean Leighton and volunteered to pay all costs: window, fines, ball, and lawyers fees...
...Mello, record breaker in the pole vault in his freshman year, started the winter in usual form, then faded. There's no reason why he can't recapture his spring. So far, Mello's touch...
Berman, a former Eastern Interscholastic half-mile title-holder, was expected by the most optimistic to run a fast fifth against the field of champions in the Prout Invitation 600. For the first two laps he ran last while indoor A.A.U. titlist Hugo Maioeco land Olympic 400-meter record breaker Arthur Wint threw elbows at each other...
...breaking all the rules. He was not only pursuing the chancy and self-conscious enterprise of writing verse for the stage; he was writing verse which, like a drink on a hot day or a kiss on a cold night, gave pleasure and satisfaction. That other rule-breaker, T.S. Eliot, had written a magnificent and entertaining verse play in The Cocktail Party; but its verse was so discreet that it usually sounded like prose, and its sobering moral sent the audience stumping out of the theater on its knees, pricing bad bargains out of the corner of its eyes...
...motivates Harvard then why have different rules for the College and the Graduate School's? A scandal is going to have its repercussions no matter where it takes place; a stream of women emerging from Lowell House at midnight or one o'clock is no less a potential reputation-breaker than a stream of women emerging at midnight from the graduates center. Yet the parietal rules for the new Graduate Center allow the men to entertain chaperoned women in their rooms up to midnight (1 a.m. over the weekend), while the College rules allow chaperoned women only until...