Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specialized departments, like the School of Journalism in Commerce College. Journalism students work with a daily Athens paper, receive a degree in journalism, and like most have little trouble getting a job after graduation. Most students like the system, for a very few people at a state supported school intend to pursue an entirely liberal arts undergraduate career...
What a great many of the 2500 students intend to pursue are some of the 2500 female students. Social life at Ohio is informal, and active, with much of it centered around the fraternity-sorority system. Almost immediately after registration freshmen girls are approached by sororities, while the men have to wait until their sophomore year for fraternity rushes. A student has to have a C average to be eligible, but according to some students, there are other requirements, like football ability or a car. Because of this, the competition for certain outstanding prospects has been vicious in the past...
...Stooge. A ventriloquist's dummy is usually the center of attention and gets most of the funny lines in a comedy act. Edgar Bergen, never as well known as his Charlie McCarthy, once lamented: "I didn't intend to end up the stooge in the combination, but it pays so well I can't quit now." Winchell, who does not enjoy being addressed as "Paul Mahoney," tries to dominate his dummy by demanding top billing, keeping some of the laughs for himself, and crowding Jerry's act by introducing new characters. A Brooklyn bumpkin named Knucklehead...
...this is merely the idea of some Brockton sporting goods outfit, all well and good. But if Al Weill and the others who think for Rocky outside the ring really believe this-and intend to see it come true-there are going to be some badly butchered faces before the present heavyweight champion of the world retires undefeated...
...Scotland, where his parents were born, Thomson has bigger ideas. Although he has no plans to change the staff or the policies (Tory) of his three new papers, the "fact that we intend to follow the same editorial policy doesn't preclude certain changes. First we have to work with the paper and learn what it needs. But some changes would be obvious to American newspaper operators, front-page ads, for example, and column widths. Maybe there's good reason in Scotland for front-page ads; we'll have...