Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ryan's Express, Westheimer 10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service...
Racing the Express. Iceboating is the fastest of all winter sports. In the 1870s, wealthy New York sportsmen got their kicks racing express trains along the Hudson River shore, and in 1908, a New Jerseyite named Elisha Price piloted his ice yacht Clarel to a speed record of 140 m.p.h. But iceboats soon yielded to icebreakers and year-round commerce on the Hudson, and the sport mostly moved West-to the Great Lakes, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The great (up to 68 ft.) old ice yachts that carried more than 1,000 square feet of sail gave way to light...
...that the conflict between the developments in the University and the goals of the Houses has left as much diversity as currently exists. Some Houses have achieved a sense of "community" while others remain impersonal. Students in two Houses find it very easy to meet the faculty and often express appreciation for the chance to dabble in fields outside their own. Members of several other Houses, however, claim they have never been able to find tutors to talk to. Several Houses are noted for a relaxed mixing among their students; others are split into very noticeable cliques...
When the "individual student is acting within his own conviction," he will be making a contribution to his own society and to the world, Taylor said. NSA, he suggested, should develop student governments and political parties which can "express concern and take action on social issues...
...digging his social grave. Harvard boys, ordering another round of drinks, rasp: "Play it again, Sam." Raising their glasses, they say: "Here's looking at ya, kid!" And when they're getting ready to blow the joint, they ask: "Ya ready, Slim?" When they want to express arrogance or individuality, they spit: "I don't have to show you no stinking badge." That line is so popular that one group pledged to write it into examination essays, and professors were soon reading about the "stinking badge" in papers on the French Revolution...