Word: ells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrusting the IOUs at the legislature. As indirection and pathos had failed before; so the fait accompli failed here, and Harvard finally had to plumb its own treasury for the eight hundred pounds due. Even then, Wadsworth House was not wholly done. 1783 saw the two wings and the ell on the north side. The brick part was built in 1810 as a separate unit and sixty years later was spun around to adjoin the ell. The most recent change was in 1950 when the east wing was widened and a doorway opened into Wigglesworth...
Yale's academicians have picked an unfortunate time to revise their school calendar With Ivy athletic directors now impeting in New York to integrate further the league's sport schedules, the unorthodox Ell calendar compounds their problems...
...they did not make him less be-oved by his colleagues and students. His ife after the squash-court event was omething of an anticlimax (it could not lave been otherwise), but it was happy and productive. He had a zest for life (skiing, swimming, mountain climbing) as ell as for knowledge...
...Coping with disaster is an important but infrequent duty for Wendell Barnes, who heads the first independent agency in U.S. history to serve the nation's 4,000,000 small businessmen. An Oklahoma attorney and ex-small businessman himself, Wendell Barnes took over last November from William Mitch ell (no kin to Labor Secretary James Mitchell), whose tight-fisted policies had convinced businessmen that SBA loans were only for defense or what Mitchell considered "essential" civilian industries...
...yard medley relay, the varsity's Don Mulvey, Hawkins, and Jim Jorgensen were 2.6 seconds slow of Yale's winning 2:52. Mulvey fell two yards behind the Ell's Sandy Gidoonse when he bumped his head on a bad turn in his final lap, but Hawkins made it up against Dennis O'Conner and converted it into a two-foot lead. Jorgensen, swimming with a heavy cold, fever, and lots of guts, then kept up with Kerry Donovan for the first 50 yards, but he couldn't hold on. Donovan must have covered the last lap in 50 seconds...