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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that way at Yale. Of course, the basic tensions that make exam period a morbid time of year are as present in New Haven as at Harvard or anywhere else. There are as many bleary eyes, poor appetites and ragged tempers; as much No-Doz swallowed and coffee drunk; as many rumors of students cracking-up, breaking down, and flunking out. What distinguishes Yale is the difference in the examination procedure itself. At a designated time, students pick up bluebooks and copies of the exam in one room. They can then go to any classroom, lounge, or seminar room...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Coffee and Doughnuts at Yale | 5/27/1955 | See Source »

...nurse who answered thought at first that Sagorsky was drunk, so she spent a lot of time getting me to describe his symptoms and spell his name," Ronald W. Tatum '57 said yesterday, "Several other calls were made, but it was at least 40 minutes before the Infirmary sent us a doctor," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Help for Sagorsky Slow, Students Say | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

Light Fantastic. In Juarez, Mexico, Juana Lucio, 78, testified, when her 103-year-old husband sought a divorce, that he came home late at night drunk, insisted on making merry, dancing the schottische with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Three Sons. In 1880 young Anton was 20 and all but the sole support of a threadbare clan of eight. His grocer father was too broke to keep his family in staples. His two older brothers were swaggering Moscow bohemians. No prig himself, Anton can confess: "I was so drunk all the time that I took bottles for girls, and girls for bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power of Negative Thinking | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...kanchalia dharam, the women place their upper garments in a large earthenware jar and, after all have feasted and drunk, each man draws out a garment and goes off with its owner, regardless of her marital ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Five Ms | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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