Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the first year since 1948 that the varsity isn't seeded first for the E.A.R.C. regatta. Instead, Yale, on the basis of its victory over Princeton, Cornell, and Syracuse last weekend, has climbed to sudden fame and has the first seeding, while Princeton is seeded second...
...coat and pulled-down hat. In one hand he will be carrying his brief case, and in the other his inevitable cigarette-holder. He likes music and the theatre, but "Working with people is my major interest, so that's how I spend most of my time. My teaching isn't separate from my life." Now that his course has become well-established at Harvard, Cabot wants to interest other schools in his techniques and urge them to introduce human relations courses. Many college have done this already...
Such barriers are common between ministers and laymen, Ribble is convinced, and he thinks he knows why: ministers don't know what their flocks believe or want to hear about. "They . . . assume knowledge in their congregations which isn't there . . . They use words and terms which at one time meant something to people; words which, however, seem not to be understood anymore-words like redemption, conversion and grace...
...influence in RFC operations. Fulbright was convinced that a modified, well-run RFC is still vitally needed in some parts of the country, including his own home state. In such places, he argued, local banks often haven't the capital for business loans, and far-off Wall Street isn't interested in expanding small-sized industries and businesses...
Author O'Flaherty's hero is a Madden of Connemara-a distinction that may not mean much to a Smith of Brooklyn or a Brown of Grand Rapids but apparently means a lot to a Madden of Connemara. "There isn't a better class of fighting man from Oughterard to Letterfrack," shrills Mrs. Colgan, the old lady who introduces Recruit Madden to the rebel army just in time for him to get in a few licks in the Easter Rising. And sure enough, Madden quickly proves himself the sort of character who looks his best in very...