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Word: half (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students, apparently still unsatisfied with a ruling which had abolished fraternities in 1855, watched Ivy grow and decided that its organizers "had something." Tiger, Cap and Gown, and other social groups were soon organized, and by 1900, Prospect Street had become tabbed "The Street," and almost half the college belonged to clubs...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...also means that Nassau men are shut off from the outside world and the politics and girls thereof. Princetonians are notoriously blase to national affairs-their only political club is a half-hearted Liberal Union-and girls are rarer on the campus than born-rimmed glasses...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...random from the city directory. He does this to avoid leaving it to his relatives, who are gathered in the hallway like homing turkey buzzards. The point of it all is that Good People can be happy with money, but that Bad People cannot, and so on, through half a dozen incidents...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

Bingham said that he had invoked this rule after the Crimson cheerleaders had "embarrassed him" by performing their tumbling acts when the Dartmouth band was playing at half time two weeks ago. He added that the visiting colleges had complied with his request not to interrupt the bands with student pranks, and that he "felt we should do our part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bingham Says 'No Tumbling' During Halves | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...little over an hour, the varsity scrimmaged under the hal-and-half arrangement. The first string offense was directed at the freshmen while a defense composed of some first stringers and some men who were filling in for players who go both ways tried to stop the Tiger offense as executed by the jayvees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Drills Against Tiger Plays | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

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