Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick Gorlin and Austin Fish, its directors, eight Adams men, most of them uninitiated Freshmen, have applied for dates thus far. Taking down names, weights, heights and bankrolls, the manages inquire as to the applicant's dancing ability, and rate him one, two, or three on appearance. A card with this information is then whisked over to the three Radcliffe houses, Briggs, Cabot and Barnard, where a mad scramble takes place for the most appealing gentlemen...
...card for today shows Lowell tangling with the NROTC and Adams opposing Company E. On Monday Companies A and E will meet while Lowell will attempt to lengthen its lead in a game with Company C. At that point the season will be half over and all teams will begin their stretch drive for the championship. The last games of the season are to be played on August...
Maier's plan derives from experiments which upset orthodox psychological notions. He forced rats to jump at one of two differently marked cards, one of which led to food while the other only bruised the rats' tender snouts. Then he switched the cards. Result: the rats became wildly neurotic. When repeatedly frustrated, a rat would throw itself blindly again & again at an unyielding card, even though there was food in plain sight beside...
With this nip-&-tuck race as a drawing card, this summer's tournaments, almost all for the benefit of war charities, seem sure to add up to one of golf's richest seasons. Prizes in war bonds total a whopping $121,332, include the biggest ever offered to a first-place winner: $10,001 at the Tam O'Shanter Open in Chicago in August...
Guadalcanal's boxing has become so popular throughout the Solomons that it is now broadcast by radio. In last week's popular card, matching Hawaiian soldiers against Marines, the Marines took six out of nine. MPs ruled no decision on five fist fights in the audience...