Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just when this came about is unclear, but it works out very simply. Freshmen are required to wear the beanies and it is the sacred duty of the Sophomores to enforce, the ruling. So they blockade the Commons and permit only "bedinked" Freshmen to enter--a starve 'em out campaign...
...House Ways and Means Committee, had declared that Congress would limit aid to Europe even under the Marshall Plan to $1 billion next year. Contemplated in the Marshall Plan: some $6 to $7 billion the first year. Said Knutson: "Give them a paddle and then tell 'em-'Go paddle your own canoe...
...Christopher Lonsdale, now a ruddy, gruff and silver-haired 61, the theories of most modern pedagogues are so much "poppycock." "Keep 'em happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...
Gannon Boots 'Em...
Badger tackling was precise and vicious. "Hit 'em at the shoe-strings" seemed the Midwesterners' motto and time after time Eli ball-carriers would find their feet blasted from under them and land with a jarring thud...