Word: exam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enjoying a post-exam rest at a friend's home in Westport, Connecticut, Warner saw the pursuit plane plunge into the ocean not over a half-mile away. Without pausing for an instant, he rushed to a nearby yacht basin, found a rowboat and set out over the choppy waters of the Sound...
...another four months. No more last minute frenzies. No more sleeping between three and eight a.m. No more sessions in a bleak lecture hall with a blank-lined page in front of him, and a great blank void in his mind. It was a relief to finish any exam, but after this last one he could really afford to look ahead. He drew himself a luxuriant picture of days doing nothing, lingering, over breakfast, lazing through the morning, coffee and magazines in the common room after lunch and again after dinner, time even for a little exercise in the afternoons...
...literature given by Samuel H. Cross, professor of Slavic Languages, could secure from the Black Bourse a complete synopsis of the lectures in the course. A half dozen scholars, none of whom had attended a single lecture, paid $5 apiece for copies of the outline to prepare for the exam on Friday...
While news photographers clucked and clicked, the heavyweight champion of the world stood impassively, as always, in this outfit he will wear for Uncle Sam. Joe Louis Barrow had passed his physical exam a few days before with the comment: "Guess I haven't got those flat feet I was afraid of." Asked what he would do if he saw a Jap, he drawled: "In the line of duty I'll defend myself." On the day he was due to report at camp, Joe left his suite in Harlem's best hotel, had his chauffeur drive...
...same time, the 1940-41 executive board turned over its duties to the new board which will begin its activities at the end of the exam period. Howie Oedel '43 will head the new board consisting of Bill Wolfe '43, Dick Moore '44, and Gleen Saxon '44, which will supplant Steve Winship Occ, Bob Black '42, Jim Rothschild, and Peter Grey...