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Word: kappas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra hands to help with the school of agriculture's bumper crop, the division said no. The crop rotted, and at considerable expense the university had to buy its food on the open market. All in all, the setup has been so suffocating that the Phi Beta Kappa senate has refused to charter a university chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Straitjacket | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

January. The Harvard faculty will be rocked by an expose of the local jewelry store that sells bogus Phi Beta Kappa keys. Crane Brinton will abandon his professorship to become a section man at Sarah Lawrence. Seven alumni of the class of '18 will picket Mem Hall crying, "Veritas has become demi-tasse and these hallowed halls have termites!" Three business school students will be arrested for smuggling the newly banned copies of Playboy over the state line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Siler, of Orinda, Calif., and Winthrop House is captain of the varsity track team and is concentrating in Spanish History. A shot-putter and discus thrower, he placed second and first respectively in these events in last spring's Heptagonals. Siler is also a senior member of Phi Beta Kappa and a National Scholar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Harvard Seniors Win Rhodes Scholarship Awards | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Harvard's Phi Beta kappa touch football team is favored to overwhelm the Yale Phi Bete's in a contest today on the Old Campus at Yale. The game is scheduled to start at 10:30 A.M. Crimson Captain Daniel A. Resneck '56 predicted a 23-2 victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Ready for Elis | 11/19/1955 | See Source »

...herself has told her own story, she was orphaned at six (both parents died of influenza in 1918), passed around among relatives, and sent to a convent in Seattle. She went East to Vassar (class of 1933), became a Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year, and married successively an actor called Harold Johnsrud (divorce), Edmund Wilson, the novelist-critic (divorce, one son, now 16), and finally Bowden Broadwater, an occasional writer some years her junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cye | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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