Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's "A" team looked more like a well-oiled gridiron machine yesterday afternoon than it has any other time this year, but joy in the Crimson football camp was shortlived. Burgy Ayres joined the long list of casualties, and the extent of his injury is as yet undetermined...
Mias Loomis, her shapely limbs outlined against a dedicatory plaque reading "To the Joy of Manly Contest", expressed her enthusiasm for everything Harvard. "I like the town; I like the accent; and I do like the boys! I thought at first that I wouldn't like the indifference, but I simply haven't found any." Judging from the number of craning necks, there was none to be found...
...felt to be defeated: "The first half hour you believe that the earth has slipped from beneath your feet, that the stars above your head have paled and faded, and you wonder what the Senate will do without you. . . . But within another half hour there comes a peace and joy...
...legend. Five years after his thunderous lectures ceased forever, a group of his one time students and disciples organized the William Graham Sumner Club. This year, the centenary of the great man's birth, the club is honoring his memory by distributing salty Sumner sayings, which are a joy to every good Republican. More importantly, the anniversary was marked last week by the publication of a centennial edition of Sumner's Folkways (Ginn; $4), a profoundly influential book. Wrote Yale's William Lyon Phelps, a fervent Sumner admirer, in the introduction: "Folkways is a book that never...
...chatty, affectionate family letter than a will, it named Wife Bertha P. Steuer chief beneficiary, bequeathed her $60,000 a year, gave equal parts of one-half the estate's remaining income to his three children. Excerpts: "My grandchildren-God bless them all-who have been such a joy to me, may deem it strange that no bequest is herein made to them. I have each one of them in mind, and love them with all my heart. I have heretofore created a trust for each of them after a life estate to one of their parents. They...