Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little ironies of academic life in the College is the fact that section meetings, taken for granted during Freshman and Sophomore year, suddenly disappear when the student begins taking large, popular upper-level courses as a Junior or Senior...
Every afternoon last week a grey 1951 Chevrolet threaded through the streets on the edge of town, pulled up alongside the field where Stockton (junior) College's red-and-blue-jerseyed Mustangs worked out under the gentling fall sun of California's Central Valley. Out of the car stepped a trim figure in grey slacks and blue windbreaker. Under fluffy, center-parted white hair, his big, broad-browed head was thrust forward, turtle fashion. He looked old as he walked toward the cleat-chewed turf, but he shed his years like a mantle and straightened up smartly...
Like a Youngster of 70. Despite a normal number of illnesses, and a back sprain that has caused discomfort off and on for more than half a century, Stagg is well enough preserved, both mentally and physically, to function as effectively as many a man 25 years his junior...
...right side of the park, and never attend matinees. But a series of rude intrusions disrupt his neat, parklike existence. First, it turns out that his wife likes the wrong kind of matinee: one afternoon Michael peeks into her bedroom and sees her with one of his junior trust officers. He finds some consolation in a second marriage, but a sordid financial squeeze play threatens his castle in the conditioned air of Wall Street. Finally Michael decides that he has "waited all his life for a madness of the blood," and indulges it with his stepdaughter. In his desire...
...year-old Negro boy through a Harlem wringer during one long night and shows him at dawn emotionally dry behind the ears. The kid's name is Frederick Brown, but he prefers to be called by his gang name: Steely. He is a 2nd lieutenant in the Junior Comanche Raiders, reads Superman comics and numbers Jackie Robinson among his heroes...