Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall, woollybear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs. If the brown band is wide, a mild winter is indicated; if the band is narrow, it will be a hard winter [TIME, Nov. 8, 1948]. This year's bands, according to the museum's naturalists, are wide...
Minor sections of the University's $200,000,000 endowment are invested in corporations that make dog food, hard liquor, bath tubs, aspirins, and cigarettes...
Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
Princeton's ability to mix hard work with rah-rah is its distinctive feature. Often students do both at once. Since the days of a famous grind named Poler, Princetonians have spontaneously celebrated "Poler's Recess" at 11 p.m. every night during exam-period grinding: ten minutes of fireworks, blasting radios, and communal noisemaking in the best tradition of the frustration-aggression theory...
...killed by Juan in a duel over the attempted seduction. Don Juan, a veteran in Hell, is seen to have profited by his earthly satiation with the life of the senses, and he is prepared to visit Heaven to achieve self-fulfilment. In analysis, it may be hard to see how this idea could ever be interesting in dramatic form. But the sparkling prose of the philosophic discussions is delightful for its wit, its audacity and its insight...