Word: irwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adequacy and the popularity of the 'Cliffe library have increased greatly. The renovations of the last two years made it a pleasant and comfortable place to study. On the second floor both smoking is permitted and boys are allowed to venture. By far the most popular is the modern Irwin room on the first floor. Easy chairs, about 25 of the latest magazines and books for recreational reading keep this room occupied at almost all hours...
...cafeteria; Knoxville has. Clinton gives no courses in cooking or auto mechanics, but Knoxville does. Clinton High had squeaky halls, a hopelessly inadequate gym. Its one story, built for 175 pupils, houses 599. Knoxville has three stories for its 640. All in all, said County Superintendent Frank Irwin, the county is paying only $120 to educate each white child, $325 for every Negro...
There are no toughie writers in Martha Foley's Best of the Best, and only a few of The New Yorker school, e.g., Kay Boyle, Irwin Shaw, in civilized coughs of irony. The bulk of the book consists of honest, strongly felt stories by authors who have profited from the example of such pioneers as Anderson and Hemingway, but have had enough intelligence and drive to cut their own paths. Stories by Nelson Algren, Erskine Caldwell, Paul Horgan, Albert Maltz, Jean Stafford and Wallace Stegner deal with such basic human situations as the feelings of parents as they take...
Yale ruggers in the past have mostly been football players. Carrying on in this tradition is varsity star Ed Senay, who will play backfield. Eli captain will he Frank Mueller, and two more stars on his team will be Pete Harrison and Don Irwin. Irwin is a former Argentine International, and it was mainly his fine looking that helped the Elis top the Brenda Rugby League last Easter...
...Hello, Uncle." The uncle, an engineer named George Brewer, yielded up no money. Irwin forced his way into the Brewer house, pistol in hand, crying, "Hello, Uncle-get over there and sit down!" Brewer and his fearful wife obeyed. But nothing happened-Irwin just sat down too. The girl wobbled to the davenport, and fell asleep. When she woke up the next morning all three were still sitting motionless in the same chairs. Irwin hustled her into the Brewer's Oldsmobile sedan and drove off. He pulled up at a rural cornfield, raped her again, taped...