Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great happiness to have been born in an old house," he wrote in 1871, when already there had been 140 years to fill it "with harmless ghosts walking in the corridors." A house had stood on the same site since the founding of Cambridge in the 1630s, but he was referring to the "Gambrel-roofed house" built in 1730, barely four years after Wadsworth House, which (if you ignore the latter's brick bustle) it exactly resembled. The house was privately owned until 1871, but its close ties to the University began with the moving in of Jonathan Hastings...
These two should creditably fill the shoes of graduating star tackles Orville Tice '56 and John Maher...
...hardest blow was struck at McGinnis by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Ever since a McGinnis group won control of the Boston & Maine Railroad last April, the B. & M. president's chair has been empty, and McGinnis aspired to fill it, as he does the presidency of the New Haven. When he failed to show up before ICC Examiner Homer T. Kirby to push his application, his lawyer explained that he was busy 24 hours a day personally dealing with the New Haven's problems. Asked Examiner Kirby: "If Mr. McGinnis spends all his waking and sleeping hours running...
Eating, sleeping and working with men who fill him with disgust helps to shock Fiddler out of his own alcoholism. But he has another reason: he has come to be fascinated by the cats, and he knows that working around them drunk means death. His boss is an Indian simply called Chief, a violent, powerful man with an instinctive way of handling the animals, who warns Fiddler not to become too friendly with them. As his respect for most of his fellows declines, his love for the hand some, graceful and proud animals be comes almost a passion...
...contemptuous treatment of the happily married couple, those who have "other interests" to fill their waking hours, admits no such thing as love, the highest ideal of mankind, the only real stability in a world so transient and insecure as is ours, only screaming responsibility. These couples are just too stupid to be other than doggedly faithful. This is certainly most depressing to a young woman seriously contemplating marriage...