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Word: heep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average undergraduate, the business manager of the University is a combination of March 15th and a finance company, with added shades of Uriah Heep. In the case of the present business manager, this picture is not accurate and less than fair. For in a postwar confusion that has the veteran student in a tight economic squeeze, Aldrich Durant is forced to voice, administer, and often defend unpopular fiscal policies that stem from the sacrosanct provinces of Harvard's Olympian body, the Corporation. Most of the recent rent and board increases were settled in the semi-monthly meetings of the Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

...sunny Atlanta courtyard, men with only one arm and men on crutches throw baseballs at dummies of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. In another, men with hooks for hands, in airplane splints and on crutches take a half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Wounded | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Paced by Stew Meyarholz, a classy Princeton heep team proved too much for the Crimson Sophomors quistet, gaining a 30-24 decisios...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON TAKES MEASURES OF CRIMSON HOOPSTERS, 32-24 | 2/15/1940 | See Source »

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