Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Bender has stated that the Administration hesitates to give credit for foreign study because there are no safeguards to insure that a man will take his work seriously. Many European universities have a loosely-knit system under which the student needs only to take a cursory examination at the end of the school year to receive full credit for courses he has hardly bothered to attend. The College, says the Dean, cannot take the chance that one of the four years spent in preparation for the degree will be wasted...
...McKay did not envision the early development of an Atlantic Community in terms of a "strong, close-knit organization which always has its goals clearly in mind." Such a community can only be achieved gradually, he maintained, through the economic and political strengthening of Europe...
...Union is now a closely knit organization with tidy offices above the Claus Golotte camera shop on Massachusetts ave. To its officers, employees bring grievances of all sorts which are carefully discussed and reviewed by Mulverhill and sectional chiefs...
...born in Gloucester on September 19, 1890. When he was big enough to shoulder a baseball bat, he started playing ball. "Just as soon as the snow was off the streets," Stuffy explains, "we'd be out playing under the lights with a yarn ball our mothers would knit for us. When we knocked the yarn apart, we'd pull it back together with black tape." Stuffy did his share of the knocking. In fact, his nickname resulted from it. Whenever the youngster would make a hit or come up with a hard grounder, the older boys he played with...
Frankie, in his usual knit tie and sharp suit, was there to receive a plaque from Mercury Records for selling 5,000,000 of their platters.* His cooey "gettin' kinda lonesome" style ("It feels good coming out that way") had come to him as naturally as a good night's sleep. But it had not always come that easily to his listeners...