Word: combs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls--green book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time for the Harvardman. Since both the Cambridge citizenry and the 'Cliffe administration frown on Bermuda shorts in class, girls achieve the same effect by neglecting to comb their haid or to put on lipstick. Actually this attitude has its benefits. A Harvard junior reported how shocked he was at first to have girls in his classes. Having graduated from Exeter, he used to rush to his Humanities 2 lectures in Sanders Theater for box seat, so that...
...throws from the hip and many others over the shoulder. The flips look deceptively easy. When one prospective student claimed the victims were helping, he was invited to remove his shoes and resist. In two seconds the instructor had the skeptic head down, feet up; the boy's wallet, comb, and socks were scattered over the ground. When he returned to earth he reassembled himself, mumbled, "It works," and left...
...committee made the Colored turn his head this way and that, so they might examine his skull. They ran a comb through his hair to test 1) its woolliness and 2) its kinkiness. Eight minutes later, the young man was declared a native. A few days before, the same board had classified his brother as a Colored...
...Pear. In determining a child's readiness to read, the teacher must make sure not only of his eye, but also of his ear. Thus, the pupil may be given a series of pictures and asked to circle the object that the teacher names. If he mistakes a comb for a cone or a bear for a pear, he is obviously on his way to mistaking "institute for "introduce." In another series of pictures, the teacher may try to put across certain abstract concepts. A pupil will be asked to draw a ball beside, under or above another object...
...tenth anniversary ceremonies (June 20), or arrives five days later at Parmachenee Lake in Maine to catch some salmon and trout, teams of Secret Service men from the 35-man White House Detail will fan out to anticipate every danger. Back in Washington, other agents will comb the central files for names and photographs of crackpots and suspicious characters in the areas that Ike will visit...