Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them are so busy trying to drive ahead and stay ahead of the beat that their ideas become stereotyped, and cold. They can't think of anything decent because in back of them all this time, there is this terrific push that doesn't let them phrase, or even pause for ideas...
Anderson, a graduate student in English, specializing in the drama explained that the policy of reviving Restoration comedies and the like had failed to hold student interest, and was dropped after a "fizzle" in '37. "Now we even fight the tendency of importing feminine leads," Anderson said...
...should have been eighty-three. It was the thirty candles which showed how old eighty-three is. The huge white birthday cake wasn't up to the job it had undertaken; it was slacking with only thirty candles, or something like that, and probably the exact number didn't even have any mathematical relationship to eighty-three. Eighty-three is very...
...thought Youth is always told that it should pay great respect to Age and it always does, but inside it usually shrugs or maybe even sneers and if it does have a feeling of respect it is only because of an externally imposed habit and not because of an honest spontaneous sentiment. Usually, perhaps, but that was not so tonight. In these surroundings it was impossible not to feel something like awe for that figure slowly getting up to cut the cake...
...Lacey can probably win the 175 pound position even reporting late, but another Junior, Dunc Longscope, and Senior Dick Lewis will let him know that the has been through a real dog-fight. Sophomore Dick Aldrich is close on the heels of both men. Almost the same thing applies to the heavyweight class where grappler-manager Tudor Gardiner holds forth. Big Vern Miller will undoubtedly learn a lot of wrestling in a few weeks under Pat Johnson, but hard-working Gardiner will give him a good battle before being displaced. Dick Harlow's endorsement of wrestling for many...