Word: hamper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a faithful few turned out for the first baseball practice of the year at Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon. But lack of numbers didn't hamper the spirit, as a second-string infield pulled off the year's first triple play...
...shocker: "If Nunn May wants to go to Russia, and the Russians want him, there is no general power to prevent a British subject from leaving the United Kingdom, with or without a passport. Nunn May does not have a valid passport. Refusal to grant him one could hamper him, but would not prevent him from leaving...
...early igoos went looking for Beauty in alleys and gutters, U.S. artists have prided themselves on smoking the lady out of the most unexpected hiding places. Last week in a Manhattan gallery, Painter James Fosburgh smoked her out again. He had discovered her in a dirty clothes hamper, a rumpled pillow, a tavern jukebox. "Anything can be beautiful if you bother to see its beauty," says Fosburgh. "Even a hamper can be a vision of the world." He makes a handsome still life from a pair of discarded work gloves or a coffee cup, a romantic landscape from the bleak...
There remains but one group that elimination of the Preliminary Study Card would hamper: it includes those undergraduates who are goaded by the Card into seriously considering their next year's program. But even these students will find little point in mulling over their full schedules far in advance when there is no Preliminary Announcement of Courses of Instruction booklet to help them. It would be singularly frustrating to select four courses in the spring, only to find next fall that they conflict with each other or no longer exist...
...creaseman Ned Yost is back, and Bob (Moe) Baldwin, 1951's top reserve, will move up. Munro, though, will have difficulty finding someone to take over Rick Hudner's vacated feeder spot. Monk Aiello, freshman captain last year, is doing a good job, but his lack of size may hamper him against some of the rougher southern teams...