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Word: grayness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles M. Gray '49 and Ernst J. Meyer '50 have received departmental kudos for outstanding work in the field of History and Literature, Elliott Perkins '23, chairman of their department, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gray, Meyer Receive Annual Hist-Lit Prizes | 5/20/1948 | See Source »

...Gray and Meyer are recipients of the annual History and Literature and Barrett Wendell Prizes, respectively. Gray, a Junior, was similarly honored last year as a Sophomore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gray, Meyer Receive Annual Hist-Lit Prizes | 5/20/1948 | See Source »

...Gilda Gray, whose beaded shimmy-dancing startled a lot of people in the '20s, startled Sterling, Colo. The assistant principal of the high school invited her to a school dance at the Elks Club and promptly got holy Ned. The board of education demanded that he break the date, explained that it "didn't think the invitation . . . was quite the thing." Miss Gray, who has been holding still for some time now, in retirement on a ranch, took it gracefully. "If the people of Sterling don't want to be educated," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Lowdown | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...symbolie to the point where everything is a symbol and nothing is real, which is a point of meaninglessness. It tends to deal with undefined moods, hazily defined characters, and ponderously defined natural trivia, e.g., "They sat on an ironwood tree's outcropping roots, roots tangled like gray fingers in wild interplay with Medusa's hair." It tends to make the reader suspect that the author is sentimentally fond of writing, but unfortunately finds himself with nothing or little to say about people or events. Generally, although not necessarily, authors with something to say take care to say it clearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wake | 5/13/1948 | See Source »

Swimming--Carol Connor '48, Grace Anthony '49, Mary-Gray Sweezey '49. Patricia McMillin '50, Elaine Gossard '51, Elizabeth Moses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

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