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Even the Corporation's 170 buildings seem a procession of contrasts. Though the seven collegiate houses (i.e., the upperclassmen's living quarters) are uniformly Georgian, rising into golden spires out of the clutter of crooked streets, Harvard has sampled the whole history of U.S. architecture, from colonial to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unconquered Frontier | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

. . . There is nothing crooked about the merry beagle. That's why he is on top.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

In Taste, an unprincipled gourmet bets heavily on the perceptiveness of his nose and palate, puts on a superb demonstration of winetasting, but outsmarts himself. In Skin, a down-and-outer discovers that the portrait tattooed on his back is signed by a famous painter and is worth a fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British O. Henry | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

In the next two years the boodle boys became so blatantly crooked that not even the most apathetic voters could stomache it. In 1940 the voters of Cambridge decisively adopted Plan E and proportional representation.

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Cambridge Faces Return to Political Dark Ages | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

But even if there were thousands, nay, whole cities who were going along with this (choke) disgusting trend, those of us who remain red blooded American youths should denounce Sidney the parrot for the crooked bird he is, and stand by Fearless Fosdick to the (sob) end.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Right vs. Might | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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