Word: handly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Larry Downs recovered from a broken hand in time to carry Yale to a 78-65 victory over the varsity Saturday night at New Haven. Downs led both teams in scoring with 26 points and also pulled down 20 rebounds. The win gave Yale a 2-3 league record, identical with the varsity...
Faculty stories, on the other hand, concern exam content; Gertrude Stein's bluebook is famous. Dear Professor James, it ran, I am sorry but I don't feel a bit like an examination paper in philosophy today...
Such religion as there can be in modern life, every Individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself ... I am a pagan . . . the Christian believer lives in a world governed and watched over by God . . . On the other hand, the pagan lives in this world like an orphan...
Died. M. Zakaria Goneim, 48, United Arab Republic Egyptologist, who in 1953 discovered a pyramid built nearly 5,000 years ago in the Third Dynasty reign of Sekhem-Khet; apparently by his own hand (his body was found floating in the Nile); at Cairo. Heralded as one of the most significant Egyptological discoveries since Britain's Howard Carter found Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, Goneim's "lost pyramid" was thought to hold the mummy of Sekhem-Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival...
...work, it was Britain's Joyce Cary. For three years before he died at 68 in 1957, a rare, wasting nerve disease had gripped him in a relentlessly spreading paralysis. Toward the end he wrote with his arm sustained by a rope, his. pen tied to his hand. Then, when his limbs failed him entirely, he dictated until his lips could form no more words...