Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's steady diet of rain apparently was just what the doctor ordered for the hitherto ailing Varsity tennis team, for they finally snapped into the win column yesterday, squashing Brown 8 to 1, while the Freshman were mopping up the Bruin yearlings with a 9 to 0 shellacking...
...sleeps only five or six hours, appears at his desk at party head quarters by 7 a.m.† His recreations are bourgeois. He loves to read, frequently culling quotes for his speeches (favorite sources: Dante, Lincoln, the Bible). He loves soccer, and is rumored to write an occasional sports column under a pseudonym. Sometimes he strolls out to a simple pizzeria called La Carbonara, frequented chiefly by taxi drivers. Characteristically, he has broken with the darkling tradition of Communist revolutionaries, and does not play chess. Instead, he likes to bowl and play scopone (an Italian card game). His party comrades...
...first time in 17 years Winchell was "sans contract." He had told the publisher of Hearst's New York Mirror that if The Chief "wants to keep me interested," perhaps they'd better talk things over. As matters stood, the pay from his syndicated column was chicken feed for Turkey Gobbler Winchell: on the radio, where he sells lotion, he was getting $7,500 a week, a $130,000-a-year raise over 1946. His gross income: $502,000 a year...
...alumni met in Chickering's Rooms, Tremont Street, Boston, on May 12, 1865, and expressed the need for a memorial to immortalize those sons of Harvard who had fallen in the Union cause, they started a controversy similar to that of the present period. Advocates of a marble column opposed supporters of a utilitarian memorial, and every group boosted its own cause. Memorial Hall was the $360,000 heterogeneous compromise theater, dining hall, and memorial transept. The transept was enlogized with the words, "There, amid the gorgeous emblazonry, shall be read their names, their academic year, their battles...
...Jayvees will be seeking to reenter the win column for the first time since April 19, when the Junior nine defeated Newton Junior College...