Word: fro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parties given every year on the presidential country estate of Rambouillet, M. and Mme. Auriol attain a high pitch of activity. Michèle Auriol scurries about directing the beaters to drive copious supplies of game in the direction of favored guests. Vincent with his gun swivels wildly to & fro. Those who know his aim and love their lives, duck. He good-naturedly contradicts any suggestion that somebody else brought down the bird at which he thought he aimed...
...present case which we are remotely analyzing) football, accurate prediction of the possible outcome of a significant athletic encounter is, of course, made even more difficult by factors of which the observer is not aware until the exact moment that the contest commences: adverse weather, a driving rain, fro example, can transform a swift group of athletes into eleven separate amorphous masses, clumsiness incarnate; besides, good coaching, too, cannot be under-stressed, vital as it is in the transformation of a promising team into a team with great potential; spirit, that greatest of all abstractions, is, perhaps, most important...
...Willies really go to town. They break out large numbers of water pistols, were all kinds of collegiate garb, and import many good looking women, who also man water pistols and run around in white shirts to boot. Before and after the game, the lacrosse players speed to and fro in fast motor cars, many of them new convertibles. In the Williams milieu, the frat house is paramount at all times...
...full six hours before the American Export Lines' Exilona made port, Italian divers were busy beneath the waters of Naples harbor looking for mines. Just over their heads navy patrol boats bumbled to & fro; above them, planes of the Italian air force watchfully circled the sky. On the shore, soldiers in tanks and jeeps patrolled the approaches to the waterfront, and Neapolitan police guarded a dock entirely surrounded by barbed wire...
Charles R. Brynteson '50 has won the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England, Provost Buck announced yesterday. Seven other seniors have also been awarded fellowship fro travel and study abroad...