Word: hazing
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...future of outside activities, including sports, is in, a certain haze. House debating, discussion groups, and even House sports are well started and well equipped to last at Harvard. But the more time-consuming activities and sports are not on such firm ground. Except for the just plain "loafers," these groups undoubtedly supply the tutoring schools with their most willing material. And the trend of increased concentration and increased pressure due to the influx of more and more students chosen from grade competition makes these activities a hazardous undertaking from the scholastic point of view. President Conant's words were...
What really happened around Los Angeles last week was neither a sign of the wrath of God nor a wholesale cremation. A feature of the Southern California climate rarely mentioned by that city's energetic Chamber of Commerce is the peculiar haze visible on most autumn days. The haze is caused by smoke from fires in the dry. scrubby brush that grows as much as eight feet high over the sandy hills behind the city. Brush fires, unlike real forest fires, are easily extinguished and rarely do much more than annoy the mountain rabbits and keep CCC boys...
Kolbe, like Lehmbruck, never uses the hammer and chisel. Like Lehmbruck, too, his art suggests a man conscious of a world governed by illogical forces. He seeks escape in dreams of gentle adolescence. Youths and maidens take dim shape as though seen from a distance, or through a haze...
Passing, repassing; slantwise through the haze...
...Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Steelman Eugene Grace. Copperman Louis Shattuck Gates and many and many another manager of major corporations. Even the rank & file clustered at the common tables will read like a Directory of Directors. And through the rich blue haze of New Waldorf cigars, the nation's manufacturers will listen to the first woman ever asked to address them-Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Novelist Lewis' wife...