Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dining in the Colleges is scarcely better, perhaps inferior to the Houses. But Colleges, because of their size, manage to smokescreen gastronomic deficiencies with graciousness. The dining rooms are smaller and proportionately quieter. Students queue up for their stew and ice cream inside the separate College Kitchens and succeed in making the dining halls look like desirable men's clubs rather than cafeterias. In fact, in pre-war days when food was good and served on plates by waitresses, the resemblance of Colleges to good men' clubs was one of their chief attractions to undergraduates...
Hockey is one sport where it pays to go to Yale. Practice sessions for Houses teams are from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. each morning because of the scarcity of available ice-space. This year, however, Harvard games will be played in the afternoon. In New Haven the University rents the Arena from 3 to 6:15 p.m. and the College teams play and practice in the last 15 minutes of each...
...first book, "The Ice Lens," caused a commotion on the campus. It described the evil and vice of undergraduate life at Yale. From then until 1940 Gundelfinger produced more than 40 books and articles from his New Fraternity press, and swamped Yale with "den of iniquity" pamphlets...
Under the Desk. About the time Hoyle and Lyttleton reached this point of their reasoning, World War II put cosmology i ice. Both young mathematicians went into war work-Lyttleton into the War Office in London as a technical adviser and Hoyle into radar development All through the blitz and the buzz-bombs Lyttleton kept publishing small, abstruse papers. Hoyle, by his own account, worked on cosmology "under the desk" like a schoolboy reading comics instead of doing his arithmetic...
...Manley Halliday took his first drink on the plane, and flew high all night over the U.S. and his mental blocks, but landed hard the next morning in New York and exhaustion. Benzedrine and booze revived him, and he started to work out his story line for Love on Ice with his young co-scripter, Shep Stearns; they had only one day left in which to dream up the whole plot...