Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maxwell Plan for the U.S.: let girls' colleges, women's clubs, Junior Leagues arrange blind dates for the boys. "It would be my idea to write the girls' telephone numbers down on slips of paper and let the boys draw them from hats. Have it done entirely with the cognizance of the parents...
...University men of private means possessed of "a knowledge of two or three foreign languages, some familiarity with the graces, and a nodding acquaintance with the muses." Among other guarantees that moneyed wearers of The Old School Tie would dominate the Foreign Service was the fact that a beginning junior third secretary got only $1,100 a year...
...from the Crimson training quarters at Red Top and the Eli's camp at Gales Ferry, late Saturday afternoon. Previously the combination crew composed of substitutes had whipped the Elis by a length and three quarters, the Freshmen had turned the same trick by three lengths, and the Junior Varsity had been hard pressed in winning by a length...
Sophomore spring he made the third Varsity, and this year was rowing five on the Junior Varsity until Bolles moved him and stroke Bus Curwen to corresponding positions in the first boat before the race with Navy and Pennsylvania...
...escaped into Trans-Jordan recently with bloodthirsty detachments of Circassian and Ismaili tribesmen. Vichy authorities had suspected him of De Gaullist leanings and dispatched him away from the border to Damascus. Mme. Collet took a room in a Damascus hotel in her husband's name and a junior officer was stationed there to answer phone calls until she and the General could make their getaway. At the frontier, guarded by quick-firing Senegalese, Mme. Collet stepped on the gas of her husband's car, hooted the horn and sped over. Impressed by the noise, the native corporal called...