Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave no hint, by frizz or kink, that Sylvia's mother was "a low-class girl" of "Buck" (Guiana Indian) and Negro parentage. Sylvia could not claim to belong to "the respectable middle class" of old and established colored families, but she was tony enough to attend the Georgetown academy of Miss Jenkins (a colored lady who passed for white) and to look down on Negroes, Indians, Syrians, Chinese, Eurasians and mixtures thereof...
Arguing on both sides of the topic, "Resolved, that the U.S. should adopt a policy of free trade," the Crimson defeated Army, Georgetown, Merrimac, N.Y.U., Clarkson, Univ. of Maine, St. John's, and Wesleyan. It lost only to Middlebury and Penn. State...
Last year's winner, Michigan State, Penn State, Georgetown, and Syracuse are team favorites. The outstanding Eastern teams well probably be Cornell, Yale, Army, and Harvard, in that order. New England teams rated well are the University of Massachusetts, Northeastern, and M.I.T...
Last week Georgetown University's Dr. O. Benwood Hunter Jr. reported that cortisone and ACTH will do this in most cases. The level of the mother's hormone secretions is carefully checked as pregnancy advances, and if it indicates that the baby's red blood cells are not forming properly, or are being destroyed, the mother gets cortisone. (Sometimes she also gets ACTH to step up her own and the baby's production of adrenal hormones like cortisone...
...chances after all the oratorical threats, London ordered 1.600 troops and four warships rushed to the colony. Though news leaked from Bermuda that the cruiser Superb had sailed with sealed orders, there was no violence. As the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and Marines fanned out to occupy key points around Georgetown, and the radio announced suspension of the constitution and dismissal of the legislature, Premier Jagan made the understatement of the week: "We are most unhappy about the situation." He and the other Red-tinged ministers were not detained or molested in any way, but the legislature's dismissal...