Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone is the talented all day player immortalized in Saroyan's "Time of Your Life", and in his place now stands the casual sportsman standing by clattering machine, munching a hamburger, and running up a million, but still a losing point score...
Pinball has become more of a casual sport and less of an all-day occupation. "Of course," continued Harry, "there are some good players around now. On these machines, they're probably as good as the pre-war champs...
Everything works out nicely--both dogs win the big contest (in alternate years, of course); both are suspected of sheep slaughter and almost got their heads blown off by an aroused peasantry. Peggy Ann Garner and Lon McAllister are tossed in as a casual and extraneous pair of callow lovers, and take up some of non-doggy footage. But, unless you're one of that strange breed that dotes on animal pictures. "Thunder in the Valley" is hardly worth the trip downtown...
...Casual as Claflin and Reynolds make the process sound, the University's money has been invested carefully enough to make the endowment, as of June 30, worth $194,402,876.91 on the market as opposed to $177,168,490.24 in the books. In other words, if you total the original value of Harvard's 1800 different endowment funds, you get $177 millions. If you went out and sold the various securities in which the funds have been invested; you would receive $194 millions...
...this adviser represents an ideal, he also represents a small minority--a minority that is not likely to increase in size. Freshman advising will remain a casual business as long as Harvard remains a university college, as long as the majority of advisers are more concerned with their own research, their own teaching, and their own academic futures than with the fate of their advisees. It will continue to take the College's raw material--and the split, the schizophrenia, the polar extremes inherent in that raw material--and turn it back on its own unequal resources for the important...