Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ever since the war, and particularly in the last ten years, applications to the College have risen sharply. The growing ratio of opplications to admissions made it necessary to form a working "policy of selectivity"--a set of criteria, however vague. And the possibilities of a hand-picked class encouraged extensive speculation, both within the Admissions staff and among other administrators, about the ideal Harvard class...
...expected, Bob Lowe of the Bruins led the field. Lowe won by more than 250 yards, and his time for the five-mile course, 25:34, was one of the best ever recorded at Franklin Park. In front from start to finish, the Brown ace showed the form that may carry him to the Heptagonal crown later in the fall...
Five Fingers (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Few spy rings ever boasted so tricky a talent as Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen brings to Dossier, second in the series...
...before she crossed the color line? One Negro girl is ready to tell, says: "I hated that high-yellow doll"; Sapphire had stolen her man. The police find him, a Negro bishop's son with a Mayfair manner and an Oxford accent. Had the bishop's boy ever intended marriage with Sapphire? Good heavens, no. "She was part white...
...John Kieran, 67, used the 50 springs well; sportswriter, naturalist and radio fountain of knowledge (Information Please), he was born, raised and schooled in The Bronx (Fordham, cum laude, 1912), all told lived there for the better part of half a century. While few New Yorkers ever notice nature, Kieran's thesis always has been: "Let men build and pave to their hearts' content, there will always be many kinds and untold numbers of wild things in the great city...