Word: jumboes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Midway through the fourth quarter, with Tuffs threatening, the Crimson defense shut down the Jumbos on a fourth-and-three situation at the Harvard 19 yard line to prevent Tufts from typing up the contest. Defensive end Pete Mee broke through the Jumbo offensive line to dump Byrn for a ten yard loss that snuffed out the Tufts attack...
Harvard's yardling football team opens its six-game season today at 2:30 p.m. against Tufts on the Jumbo's Medford field in a game which marks the debut of the Crimson's new freshman coach Chester O'Neill...
Andreski is convinced that "much of what passes as scientific study of human behaviour boils down to sorcery," and suggests that the lay reader learn to differentiate between the mumbo jumbo and the occasional work that is valuable. How? By testing his brainpower on a few hard books like Bertrand Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy and J.H. Woodger's Biological Principles. If these volumes are comprehensible but the work of a particular social scientist seems obscure, "then you can justifiably suspect that it might all be nonsense...
...Italian Screenwriter-Director Ennio de Concini, Maria Pia Fusco, and Austrian Producer Wolfgang Reinhardt, son of famed Director Max Reinhardt. In persuading Guinness to take the part, De Concini recalls, "I told him I saw the last days in the bunker like floating into nowhere in a first-class jumbo jet. You go into unreality, between life and death-der Führer crying, Eva Braun dancing to Tea for Two, the Nazi empire falling into destruction. I wanted to film all this in the manner of an 8-mm. movie...
...dams, electrical power projects and industrialization. "Gandhi said we should begin from the village upward and release the energies of the masses of the people," says Novelist Mulk Raj Anand. "Nehru and the Western-educated intelligentsia began with the cities and worked downward. So disparity continues. While we have jumbo jets, luxury automobiles and 100,000-guest wedding receptions, in many villages women have to walk a mile to get potable water for their badly lit homes." Indira Gandhi recently admitted that "some of the directions which we have taken in all good faith are not perhaps entirely adequate...