Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing daunted, the Crime gridders, outpayed 20 pounds to the man, took to the practice field today. They ran through a series of baffling "dotted i" plays that caused a broad feline grin to spread across the bewhiskered visage of CRIMSON head coach R. Sibley ("The Cat") Ludendorf, who, in one of his rare statements to the press, termed the workout "schwell...
...deceptively simple to poke fun at Barnes' announcement. Any man who piously asserts his "considered opinion" to be that the "re-establishment of the Comintern . . . and its increased efforts within this country have created a situation fraught with danger to the Commonwealth" is making himself a broad target for board witticisms. But to laugh off Barnes' who successfully sponsored a highly restrictive labor bill last fall, is to ignore a man capable of exerting considerable influence to ends that actually are fraught with danger...
Biggest thing of its kind in the history of advanced learning the project will boast a paid staff of twelve specialists working under Director Stephen when it ultimately becomes established. Shaping the broad policies of the entire program is the general advisory committee, chaired by the President, including representatives of faculty, alumni, trustees, administration, and students to the tune of a 24-man total...
...adds that the Union was intended to fulfill the very functions now slated for the new Center and that "it didn't work." Then in an inkling of much that is left unsaid he notes the greater dignity of "spontaneous" fund-raising from a broad-based donor group capable of small contributions rather than what one alumnus calls the usual "browbeating of wealthy men" alone. The Student Activities Center is in Lowell's estimation so large an undertaking from the standpoint of soliciting money that it has assumed all the marks of complete impracticability...
...English novel seems to be a race between about six characters to see who is most sensitive, while the American novel is a race to see who can get drunk fastest," he observed with a broad smile. He added that the American writer "is hampered by an over-abundance of material," and can do little but describe his environment...