Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightweight crew is in no way a junior varsity and its members deserve a major letter...
...Tufts sextet enters this game with a 2 and 4 record, with losses to Army, Yale, Colby, and Brown. With the exception of one junior and one senior, every player on its team is a sophomore. While this is one of the better teams the Jumbos have had in recent years, it is not one that can compete successfully with the Crimson...
William Howard Taft was President of the U.S. when Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne arrived in Washington as a junior attaché at the old Norwegian legation in 1910. Named Norway's Minister to the U.S. in 1934 and Ambassador in 1942, he saw the U.S. through seven other Presidents, three wars, depression and unprecedented prosperity. Last week, frail and bent at 70, Wilhelm de Morgenstierne, dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, on the eve of his retirement paid a farewell visit to an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. As he left the White House, Morgenstierne offered some advice about...
...head of the history department at a Midwestern university. Like his colleagues, he is underpaid. Like many of them, he is henpecked. Unlike most of them, he wonders what happened to the old dream that leads men like him to try to set intellectual fires in the minds of junior Philistines who have no intention of getting singed. And since Purely Academic is cast as fiction, Henry also lusts after the Georgia peach whose husband is the drearily ambitious head of the economics department...
This Christmas week, as parents throng U.S. stores looking for a volume or two that might lure Junior briefly away from the TV set, their choice will be vastly broader, but they will find no mention of hellfire or corruption. About the only danger to a child's complacency is the threatened loss of Christmas-an anxiety that, surprisingly, provides the plot for three of the season's best children's writers: Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ("The Grinch hated Christmas!. . . No one quite knows the reason"), Ogden Nash in The Christmas That Almost...