Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house, both eyes clert for anything herbaceous. Everything happened in less than a jiffy. The hostess was receiving her guests near the door. Mr. Pinkle had barely shook hands when he dropped to his knees and tore ravenously at her skirt. She screamed, Mr. Pinkle is eating my grass skirt. Look at me. The guests were not slow to do this. 'Now,' she wailed, 'I can't be a Hawaian dancer.' The next day Mr. Pinkle got a raise. His employer explained, my wife doesn't want to give any more parties. Her grass skirt is ruined.' Mr. Pinkle smiled...
...situation is this: a student walks across the court. He is hungry, and wishes to reach the dining hall as quickly as possible. He is confronted by a circular grass plot which he must walk around, for a fence prevents him from taking a straight course...
...across the grass...
From the corner curb to the stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...
Will he walk around the grass plot as a decent citizen should, upholding his moral fortitude, but flunking, or will he take the criminal short cut, reaching the exam just in time? A question indeed, but should he flunk, Harvard architecture will have claimed another victim