Word: deke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This spring, some tipplers got a trifle careless: they started throwing empty bottles out the windows. The administration decided to clean up. First, the university's special police raided a beer party at the Deke house, and the chapter house was ordered closed from June 15 to next February. Then, the cops attended the Sigma Phi spring formal, nabbed ten couples (of the 50 couples at the dance) drinking white wine in the basement...
Shortly after the start of the second stanza Jack Carman slid head first into the boards behind the Northeastern goal and was put out of action for the rest of the period. Later, wing Bill Garrity and Huskie Captain Deke Kerrivan astounded the crowd with twenty foot headlong slides into the boards...
...Northeastern first defense boasts the Husky captain Deke Korrivan and Frank Bell, both veterans of New England League play...
...editor & publisher of the new paper, Owner Cox picked conservative Dwight ("Deke") Young, 55, longtime editor of the old Journal and Herald. He would be free to support any candidates and policies he wanted to. The News and the Journal Herald would also have separate plants and separate, competitive news staffs. Owner Cox said he had "instructed the managing editors to beat each other's brains...
Delta Kappa Epsilon ("Deke") opened an ice-cream bar. Undergraduates strolled up & down Elm Street and to classes in knee-length shorts. The Class of 1045W (for war), biggest freshman class (1,059) in Yale history, sweated at the biggest freshman rally. In substance, if not in form, life at Yale was much as usual last week. The college took in its stride its first summer opening and a new "Yale Plan," which compelled the student body to join up for war service to the last...