Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to my understanding, Mr. Rockefeller's objection was to the inclusion of an easily recognizable portrait of himself in the group to the left, which Rivera described as "socialite degenerates." I refer, of course, to the man with the glasses peering from behind the four card players...
...Newell Boat House, where crews are manufactured, optimism pervades. Everyone you talk to seems to be happy about the development of the freshman crew. They're all ready to bet their bursar's card that the yearling oarsmen will leave Princeton and MIT, whom they race this afternoon, lengths behind them...
...time of drawing, students will be given a room preference card which must be returned to the Dean's Office with a $50 deposit by Thursday, April...
Embarrassingly often tutors have had to report that they have known their tutees about as long as it takes to scribble a signature on a study card. Men who think they have a chance to make Phi Beta Kappa "would be wise to get to know their tutors as well as possible," First Marshal Teem suggests...
Streit acknowledged that his union faces many obstacles, pointing out that "only one seventh of the human race has ever succeeded in practicing individual liberty, and that of this fraction half live in the United States." Secondly, he added, "in this poker game our cards are up while the Kremlin's are down." "The press is continually floodlighting our hand," he said, while "underneath the card table are people like Drew Pearson--performing a very useful function...