Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first glance, the Lehigh Valley Railroad's report to its employees gave stockholders cause for cheer last week. Lehigh had grossed $80,009,497 and netted $7,205,179 last year, compared to a $5,846,985 net in 1951. Furthermore, said President C. A. Major, since 1948 the road had cut its $135 million debt down to $79,500,000, and had exchanged all its coal-burning locomotives for diesels. But the new equipment, Major explained, had cost some $23 million, which Lehigh will have to pay off at the rate of $3,000,000 a year. Because...
Soon after the announcement that the gaunt, gangling chemistry professor was to be their new president, two members of the Harvard faculty gloomily sat down one day in 1933 to talk the matter over. "Well, after all," said one, trying to cheer himself up, "Charles W. Eliot was a chemist, too." "But," countered his colleague, "Eliot, you see, wasn't a very good chemist-and this...
Backers of a plan to introduce Radcliffe cheer leaders renewed their efforts yesterday, and received administration approval of a petition to be circulated in the Houses and Union...
...plan, of course, represented a sincere effort to cheer the basketball team out of its present Ivy League inadequacies. But its suggestion set tradition on its heels and opened the doors of precedent for further female insinuation into College life. No one denies the aesthetic advantage of the female shape despite the dispute over the relative merits of crimson sweaters with white skirts or white sweaters with crimson skirts. But an arm-swinging, tumbling, jumping, bouncing female--especially of the kind that could be rounded up on Saturday nights to perform at a basketball game--offers little feast...
...Band has aways been the real cheer leader at football games, with the tumblers adding more color than spirit. And at basketball games there was no organized cheering until a few years ago. Before that, a few extroverts would lead spontaneous cheering when it was clearly deserved--a much more sensible approach. The Council might follow up its veto of feminine exhibitionists by recommending that cheerleaders pack away their uniforms and return to informal, genuine cheering at indoor events...