Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Isabella Graham was accustomed to problems, but she found herself faced with an unusually pathetic one. Six of her widows had suddenly died, and except for the dreaded almshouse, there was no place for their children to go. Then one day in March 1806, Manhattan's Mrs. Gra ham had an idea. She summoned nine other ladies, including Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, to a meeting, set up a board of directors of what is now New York's oldest orphanage. Last week, as the Graham School in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. celebrated its isoth anniversary, it was still just...
Silliman College, short on squash players, had to forfeit three out of five matches to Winthrop at Hemenway. In those played, Phil Herrera defeated Jerry Manges, 3 to 1, for the Puritans, and Doug Gardner lost a very close match, 3 to 2, to Ham Southworth of Yale, giving Winthrop a 4-1 victory...
...Ham Graven, Winthrop's undefeated first man, and Craig Merrihue are among the hopefuls in the squash play-offs at Hemenway this afternoon. With an 11-3 record, they will face Pierson College, whose top men are Dennis McGill and Jim Breckenridge. The Puritans' undefeated swimmers will be led by Steve Singer in the 50 yard freestyle and breast-stroke, Rod Wolfe in the 50 yard free-style, Bob Eakin in backstroke, and Jerry Moulton in the breast-stroke when they meet with three Yale colleges at New Haven...
...years the earnest masses of Music I have slurped mustard on Milhaud as they tried to cram the week's listening assignment into a lunch hour whiled away in the dank Paine Hall basement. Neither their appetite for ham nor their taste for the good Frenchman was aroused; snatching idle moments through the day to study for a full course in Harvard College often seemed a hopeless exercise. Certain hours became more popular than others, often the room was overcrowded and the listening time seemed restrictive. With a music library promised for Autmun, and a Lamont record collection at least...
...history of this recurrent American dream is unrolled with an unerring sense for drawing every last bit of humor from the situation. There are a few sub-happenings, like Blandings' professional struggle--he has to invent a new slogan for Wham Ham, Inc. There is also his wife's old but incipient romance with their old lawyer friend Bill Cole. But most of the action plods around the single spectre of Blandings getting fleeced...