Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small fry, accustomed to an austere four ounces of sweets a week, began to speak expertly of such popular British candies as "hundreds & thousands," "bull's-eyes," "gobstoppers," "English humbugs." Six-year-old Jane Merrill gave some definitions: "'Gobstoppers' are soft and big and when there's one in your mouth it's so full you don't do anything but sputter. 'Hundreds & thousands' are called that because there are so many of them and they are measured out in a cup. They come in colors and I like pink...
...unsuspecting Jack Campbell walked into the city room in the garish green Moorish castle that houses the Her-Ex, Red Nichols' band struck up Happy Birthday, and the staff presented the boss with a ten-foot bull whip and a wristwatch. As he took them, tears rolled down the grizzled cheeks of hard-boiled Jack Campbell. Before long, more than tears was flowing: friends had sent over a supply of liquor. By the time the gang got through a fancy buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow...
...weeks ago, about 30 graduate students held a bull session. The result is the two-day Harvard Conference for World Peace, scheduled to begin Friday at 7:30 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...
...conference is under the auspices of the Graduate Student's Committee for World Peace, whose temporary chairman is Eugene Sparrow 2Dv. The Committee was established at the bull session, and has been recognized by Dean Wild's office, publicity director Max Blue-stone Sp explained last night...
...examination, there are no basic differences between the stories they tell and the story of the student who got the C-plus. They, too, get grades completely out of proportion to their knowledge or understanding of a course's material. They, too, get away with "shooting the bull...