Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promising, but it never quite pays off. For one thing, about halfway through the novel the reader gets an uneasy suspicion that Miss Sharp is trying to smuggle in a little Heavy Thought with the froth. What's worse, neither the comic nor dramatic possibilities of the clash between Tilly and Simon are fully exploited. In the end, the novel has no more sparkle than decarbonated soda water. But even flat soda can quench a summer day's thirst...
...rally, to which five hundred students have already pledged support, will be the first since March, 1946, when a similar "Win the Peace" demonstration, sponsored by the Liberal Union, brought the Conservative League and Dadaists into the Yard to break it up. Following this clash, which resulted in a field-day for the metropolitan press, the Administration refused all subsequent requests for such meetings...
...First clash on the schedule is a tennis match with Wellesley. Afterwards, the not girls will meet Pembroke at Radcliffe on May 13, Jackson at Medford on May 14, and Pembroke at Pembroke on May 27. Three more matches are hoped...
Dunster men, to be sure, take their politics seriously, and only recently a dining room clash was touched off between petition circulators for and against...
When William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Government, and Clyde M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, clash in a Graduate Forum tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall, the funds the Forum raises in admission fees will go to support the group's $155 contest on "What the social sciences most need...