Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...league got under way. Unexpected is certainly the word for what has happened since. The Chicago Black Hawks, who won the N.H.L. race by 17 points last year, have managed only three victories in twelve games this year, rank dead last in the East Division. Next, there is the curious collapse of Roger Crozier, the talented young (25) Detroit Red Wings goalie, who only three seasons ago was the N.H.L.'s Rookie of the Year; last week, after giving up 18 goals in three games, Crozier quit the sport...
...interview form is not a means of expression ideally suited to academics--at least not this one. In the first instance, it elevates a non-event into a weighty occurance. This is particularly noxious since the community is exposed only to that curious cross-section of opinion which happens to be home when the CRIMSON phones. Moreover, one finds (or at least I find) that hesitant and tentative formulation appear in print without the shades of doubt in which they were initially shrouded. And even when questions of misquotation do not arise, matters of context and meaning to do. Since...
Finally, the program ended with the Princeton, Harvard and Harvard Freshmen Glee Clubs all massed on the stage. First, Princeton's Old Nassau, with its curious arm-cross-chest motion that looks like so many meaculpas; then, with a theoretical tear in each eye, Believe . . .oops . . . Fair Harvard. And as the last strains of that fine old Victorian melody faded into our collective memory, one could almost hear a little voice accompanying us into the cold night: Goodbye, Columbus . . . goodbye, Columbus . . . goodbye...
...University is training people to function in the outside world. It wouldn't be good if it did not. But it is also providing a small piece of detached space where business and government is studied. It has to do both things--that's why it"s such a curious place...
...Curious Twins. In her dealings with men, Otero lost her professional cool but twice. Once she sought out Eugene Sandow, "the Strongest Man in the World." But he rebuffed her advances, preferring the male company of his Danish pianist roommate instead. The other object of her attentions was one half of an act named the Marco Twins -James, 6 ft. 3 in. and Dietrich, 3 ft. 6 in. It was the lower half of the team that attracted her ("Frankly, I was curious"), and one night she succeeded in satisfying her inquisitiveness. But later she discovered that the twins were...