Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violence? . . ." Mickey roared: "What do you mean 'surrounded by violence?' People are shooting at me." Admonished to answer the question, Mickey said sullenly, "I don't like the way he asks them questions. There's two ways to ask a question and I say he isn't asking them right...
Jordan finds his job "the most thrilling and the toughest" anywhere. Withal, he has retained his sense of humor. The other day, he opened a letter on his desk and said: "The season isn't long enough. We won't have a chance to use all the plays the alumni have sent in." He filed the sheet of diagrams in a drawer...
Small rooms give Mory's an intimsey that Cronin's misses. The big difference is the steady signing from every table, a recreation banned by law in Boston. Yale is the singingest college in the East, and Mory's gathers music waves like a sonar machine. If a person isn't singing, he's hushing his friends to hasp someone else sing...
Yale's definition of success excludes the man who too ardently seeks to get ahead. Elis frown on the "pusher." A heeler is thus in the disconcerting position of working night and day on an activity, and at the same time exuding the impression that he really isn't interested. As a result, Yalies often look apathetic and uninspired in performing their extra-curricular functions...
...fifth floor, the last in the tower, harbors an exercise room with mats, ropes, swedish boxes, and all sorts of other gymnastic equipment. It isn't until the fourth floor that the gym widens out and shows what its got that other gymns don't have. The fourth and third levels contain squash courts, three swimming pools, exercise rooms, steam rooms, and every conceivable gymnastic device that athletic directors at Yale have been able to think...