Word: debits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your feet?" Shouted Stevenson: "I'm going to come over there and lay down." A member of Stevenson's entourage murmured: "That's the first time I ever heard you make a grammatical error." Grinned Stevenson, whose Ivy League diction has been counted a political debit by his advisers: "I've got orders to make one grammatical error a day." Orders or no orders, Stevenson was acting like a candidate who enjoyed his role-and his day in San Francisco was one to remember...
This year's drop into the debit column by the University Dining Halls may force an increase in board rates next term, Administrative Vice-President Edward R, Reynolds '15, said yesterday...
...debit side of the Stratton ledger showed some substantial items. He wiped out a Stevenson increase of $8,000,000 a year in truck license fees, an act that his opponents and even some of his friends said was an unmerited reward to trucking interests for supporting him last year. Some Illinois political observers thought that Stratton had also traded away too many of his aims, e.g., reform of the antiquated judicial system, to get his reapportionment bill through. But Stratton insisted that he would fight for judicial reform in the next session of the legislature. Welfare and education leaders...
...there are several entries on the debit side. Too often the show sacrifices the cast's varied comedy talents to dull, sentimental numbers stuck in for change of pace. Because the tone of the revue is irrepressibly comic these interludes are rarely effective. "Nanty Puts Her Hair Up" and June Carroll's "Guess Who I Saw Today" are examples of numbers too delicate to survive their boisterous surrounding...
Most serious factor on the debit side to date has been the injury to second-line center Norm Wood. Wood severed an external lateral ligament in his left leg in Friday's practice, and will be out of action for two or three weeks. Weiland is especially concerned about Wood's loss because the scrappy junior was looking very good prior to his injury. "He's smartened up a lot, and was just beginning to work in with Jeb Bray and sophomore Neddy Bliss on the second line," Weiland says...