Word: convincingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HANOVER, N.H., Feb. 18--The 300 medley relay team of Pete Macky, Dave Hawkins, and Chouteau Dyer opened with a Dartmouth pool and Harvard record of 2:52.4 and the varsity swimmers were never headed as they scored a convincing 47-37 win over Dartmouth today.
The varsity was strong at the top three positions as usual with Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, and Pete Milton winning easily. However, Barnaby was pleased mainly by the bottom three players, who moved up from the second team to replace varsity men who couldn't make the trip. John Davis...
Helmore's realization at the end of the play that there are worse things in life than an untouched debutante seems quite convincing. His problem with accent is alarming; allegedly proper Bostonian and Harvardian, his dialect would place him somewhere between Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. But he is agreeably suave...
Sterling Hayden, a country-boy from Boone County, Kentucky, is ridden with city dirt. He doesn't care much for the ladies (principally Jean Hagen) but admits a weakness for horses. "Math luck's just gotta change," he observes, but one fears that it never does. As farm boy turned...
Along with Christian humility, readers of Lewis will find traces of the snob-inChrist. He calls churchgoing "a wearisome 'get-together' affair . . . Hymns were (and are) extremely disagreeable to me. Of all musical instruments I liked (and like) the organ least." But apart from such culture crotchets. Surprised...