Word: cellar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone is accustomed to seeing Harvard athletic teams near the bottom of the Ivy League, for, as the saying goes, this is not a school of athletes. But when the debating team in consistently near the cellar of the League and is overwhelmed by such schools, as Bates, Curry, and Joan Marshall, some other excuse must be found...
Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above...
...Stanford is completely different from Harvard's, for Stanford is coed with no strings attached. The radio is three males to one femme. "Why wait for weekends? is the motto. Picturesque couples dot the campus, longing on the lawn in front of the library or strolling to the Cellar for a cup of coffee. It is virtually a university policy that there be at least one open dance on campus each weekend. The aim is to provide a complete life for each student right on campus. This is almost accomplished except that Mr. and Mrs. Stanford insisted that no liquor...
Keep Me Supplied. Things were hard at first. Lydia made the compound herself in her cellar kitchen; she and her three sons and one daughter bottled it in the evenings while father Isaac read aloud. In her spare time, Lydia wrote advertising circulars which her sons distributed door to door. But sales were precious few until son Dan invaded Brooklyn with 20,000 of his mother's handbills. ("KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH PAMPHLETS," he wrote exuberantly.) Lydia, it turned out, had as much of a genius for advertising as she had for pounding herbs. She addressed herself directly...
Scatter-Gun. Meriweather lived in a cellar until he developed a "skyscraper shadow complexion," and he dieted rigorously on Martinis, barbiturates and tongue-on-rye. Thus able to pass as a Northerner, Ol´ Fearless invaded Manhattan. His grim findings: gangsters, muggings, class warfare, prejudice, "rapine and horrible death ... at every turnstile...