Word: iceberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fraternity is much like an iceberg--only about ten per cent of it shows. There are more than a million fraternity brothers in the U. S.; about 100,000 of them are undergraduates. The rest of the fraternity men comprise graduate boards, which have consistently fought lifting bias rules. And the graduate boards pay most of the bills...
Last week beefy Bill Richards stood in the midst of his 1,000,000 heads of iceberg lettuce (he will plant his broccoli this week), watched the slowly circling sprays of water soak the light brown soil. He was sorry, he said, that other New England farmers were having it so bad, but he was certainly grateful for that smashup on the race track...
...never talk naturally: unlike real people they always say just what they think, and mean just what they say; when they fail to do so, there is always someone close at hand to do it for them, grimly. Thus, at its best, a Compton-Burnett novel is like an iceberg whose normally concealed 90% has risen to the surface-something apt to make any average man a trifle uneasy...
...Masters a fortnight ago, looking younger than he did three years ago, baby-faced Byron said cheerfully: "I just came over to have some fun." But he didn't really mean it. Last week, at 37, the man once famed for his iceberg nerves and his carefully stylized mechanical swing announced that he was back for some tournaments on the summer tour...
Down to the Sea is no great picture, but it is tight enough at the seams to be seaworthy. Its big moments-notably the harpooning and the ship's tangle with an iceberg in the fog-have a fast-moving drive and conviction. Despite an occasional whiff of the studio, they have a real sea smell...