Word: buff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past would insure their interest. But it is doubtful if the Visiting Committee will ever be of service until it has been invested with sufficient power to correct evils that come to its notice. Modern business men have too much to do to play Blind Man's Buff in the New Lecture Hall...
...sleep was not so easy; green, red, lavender, ochre, and buff little creatures began to dance through his ebbing and flowing consciousness. Everything was swaying as though motivated by a giant dish-washing machine. Oh! that dull throbbing around the temples! that clammy, sticky, dry, clogged feeling in his throat and upper tonsils. Would those mittens on his teeth ever wear off? Little pricks and barbed darts of conscience began to torment him as he thought of that ten page paper for Slavic Oology due tomorrow, and on which he had put absolutely no work whatsoever. The professor had been...
...retirement of Dr. Cole and the appointment of Dr. Rivers called attention to a little known but important section of a well known research foundation. Two structures separated from the larger buff brick Institute building which sits among a grove of young sycamores on the bank of Manhattan's East River, the hospital is like few others in the world. Sixty-nine patients can be accommodated, but seldom are there more than 45. At their services are 35 medical specialists, a staff of trained nurses, all the laboratory facilities of the entire Institute. And no patient's money...
...flurry was caused by word from impressionable young reporters in Washington that General Pershing, military representative, would attend the Coronation in a gaudy $600 uniform of his own designing, consisting of an ostrich-plumed "fore & aft" hat, a frock coat embroidered with oak leaves, epaulets, brass buttons and a buff silk sash. Infuriated, General Pershing stomped up the gangway of the President Harding without ever explaining clearly to reporters that his Coronation costume was no flight of fancy but the regulation full-dress uniform of a General in the U. S. Army. Grinned Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval representative: "I think...
...admitted to be a farce. The wonder is that there are a few isolated advisers who feel obligated to do more than sign study cards twice a year. An adviser should be qualified, of course, to give his advises some confidence that they are not playing blind man's buff with courses; beyond this he is, ideally, supposed to be guide, companion, expert in untangling personal, domestic, social knots in the Freshman's makeup. He is, in a word, supposed to be master of the study of the transition between school and college...