Word: handly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in seven years President Eisenhower will not be on hand to throw out the season's first ball today when the unpromising Washington Senators face the Baltimore Orioles in the Presidential opener in Washington. Busy at his golfing retreat in Augusta, Ga., Ike has deputized Vice-President Nixon to perform...
...admit the superiority of their black-stockinged counterparts. If the Cliffies do happen to take home higher grades, such happenings are easily explained away by apple-polishing or by sentimental tales of Mathla, where there was a girl who "couldn't even read numbers." The girls, on the other hand, explained their consistently better records by claims to sheer intellectual power...
...other hand, Harvard's admissions record is not a subject for shame. The largest number of secondary school applicants on record applied to Harvard last Fall; over 60 per cent were rejected. And the students admitted are by no means scholastic slouches. On Scholastic Aptitude Tests, members of the class of '56 scored from 474 to 674; for the class of '62, scores ranged from...
Judicial decisions should be based on "neutral principles of law which transcend the immediate result involved in the case at hand," Herbert Wechsler, professor of Law at Columbia University, declared last night. Discussing "Towards Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law," Wechsler delivered the annual Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture last night in Austin Hall...
Robinson displays a sure hand in manipulating the high humor of the quaint incidents which divert him. While his characters are not burdened with realism, they do have considerable vitality to them. If their language is complex and perhaps even elusive at times, it has a consistency and logic that emerge in a second reading. The logic and consistency seem a sign that the author has planned precisely where he is taking his characters; if their destination is not clear in the excerpt, readers doubtless will find clarification when they see the whole...