Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson does have trouble with Brown, one of the chief reasons will be an injury to first-string midfielder Bill Parks. Parks hurt his leg in the Penn game and will see no action today...
Inevitably the press-conference talk got back to the third member of the triangle. What if Debbie continued to frown on a quick divorce? Her interlocutory decree, obtained in Los Angeles, still had almost a year to run before it was final. "Debbie was very much hurt at first," said Elizabeth Taylor, out of the wisdom that comes from many a wilted romance. "I think the hurt has now left, and that she will consent to Eddie getting a divorce here." Having reassured both herself and her public, Liz left for her $500-a-week quarters at the Hidden Well...
...long run, Harvard men hurt themselves by not doing the reading. Girls are always "miles ahead in competence and conscientiousness," Morris states. This fact shows up on examinations. Morris explains that he always grades blue books anonymously, folding back the covers so he cannot see who wrote the exam. Yet he can almost invariably tell whether the writer is a girl or a boy. One factor is writing ability, which tends to favor the girls. Another is the fact that, due to difference in study habits, boys' examinations tend to be "uneven." A Harvard student often "hits" one essay question...
...varsity's casualty list has dwindled to one serious injury, Ed Martin's damaged Achilles tendon. Skip Pescosolido hurt his arm after a succession of 200 ft. javelin throws, but his condition is not believed to be serious...
...characters are the kind whose gay yet joyless lives make for gossip over countless canapes, but they have rarely been described with such quiet precision or understanding. Some of them are merely foolish, some merely mistake manners for morals, and some merely hurt themselves by being themselves. But the most interesting of them come close to having no self to hurt; they are hollow at heart, capable of sensation but not of feeling...