Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson wins were recorded by number two man Bob Ornsteen who topped Tom Cunningham after 21 holes, Alan Steinert at number six, who won five and four, and Jim Bailey at seven, who triumphed four...
...motion pictures. The trend toward entertainment had only barely begun, however, and Elliott Perkins '23, then Assisstant Dean of Freshmen, spoke on "Individualism of Harvard." In 1934 the speeches of President Conant and of F. Skiddy von Stade jr., secretary-treasurer of his class, shared the spotlight with Bill Cunningham, Rabbit Marenville, and Rudy Valle. In the next year, President Conant gave way to Jimmy Foxx...
...redundancy increases, according to the theory, so does clarity, up to a point. Yale Electrical Engineering Professor W. J. Cunningham figures that most written and spoken English exhibits some 50% redundancy. If half of the letters were struck out, the message could still get through despite interfering noise. Two extremes of redundancy in English, according to Shannon, are Basic English, whose vocabulary of 850 words makes its redundancy far too high, and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which has such low redundancy (owing to the author's coinage of new words) that it is unintelligible to the average...
...engineers, the redundancy theory suggests a new way to approach the criticism of art forms. Professor Cunningham believes, for instance, that landscape paintings exhibit the same high redundancy that television pictures do. Williams College Art Professor S. Lane Faison Jr. cautioned, however, that the very best art exhibited the least redundancy, e.g., the paintings of French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, who evolved a style that was a. kind of shorthand. In Cézanne's paintings, said Faison, "whole areas of information" were eliminated: "tables, fruit . . . where the light came from, what time...
...Crimson was forced to rally when Williams became its sixth opponent to score first. Dave Cunningham of the Ephmen opened the scoring when he booted home a pass from Tom Lincoin at 14:50 of the second period...