Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inexplicably, the track team is one of the most closely-knit and spirited groups of athletes at Harvard. Last spring it finished a good season with a stunning upset of the Eli rivals, and a strong '54 squad promises to supply some sprint and distance men to bolster the 1952 chances...
Last Thursday, June 28, making my first trip in many years on a Pennsylvania Railroad train, I was shocked to find such a drop in standards ... I tried to knit but the car swayed and jerked; I tried to read-the paper jiggled with the wheels; the roadbed was in awful condition. That night I read TIME, and there in print was everything I had experienced to New York and back again. Rough riding, dirty aisles, filthy windows, curt conductor, and no drinking water...
There was little doubt that Wagner had lost-and little sympathy for the bad grace with which he had taken his defeat. Those more interested in the survival of the college than in the conflict of personalities could only hope that time and a better spirit would knit raveled Rollins together again...
With tighter-knit bluebooks to correct, graders will be able to go over each one more carefully. These men will also have the time either to write longer marginal comments in the examination books, or to discuss them individually. There will no longer be any excuse for not returning blue books to their authors...
Although the greatest efforts are made in Poughkeepsie to treat every undergraduate as an individual, there is a natural tendency toward conformity within any such closely-knit, isolated group. Though the aim of the admissions policy has been to gather individuals who show a wide variety of experience, the girl from Zanesville, Ohio, who leaves Vassar after four years must resemble her roommate from Manhattan in many respects...