Word: know
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become urban and suave. Away from the pastoral life, the bucolic point of view, the simple and earthy existence 'midst the pine trees and the birds. No more of the violent college spirit, the "small college" attitude. For Dartmouth men come from the mad whirl of city life and know what the bright lights look like. "Let's have a new Dartmouth tradition, a cosmopolitan, tweed dressed, and smartly polished one." Harvard, once a "small college," has turned suburban without that sense of shame from selling out! May Dartmouth...
...think you can teach anybody to write; the only possible way to learn is through experience--most young writers don't know enough about life," he said...
...that his investment was protected. In regard to his copying, examine "Fon To You" and you will find "Don't Be That Way" and "If Dreams Come True" in full splendor; "Dodging The Dean is made up of "Blue Skies" (Benny Goodman's arrangement) and "How Am I To Know"; "Study in Green" bears strange resemblances to one of Glenn Miller's riff tunes; "Midnight in Madhouse" has a large chunk of Ambrose's "Night Ride" present; "Chant of the Jungle" is an almost exact carbon of the old Casa Loma arrangement; these are just a few of Mr. Clinton...
...whistled between his teeth. "Say, you're a student, ain't you?" The question upset the proctor. He thought of the pile of unread books on his desk and nodded. "Too bad, too bad," the bartender commented sadly. "We can't serve drinks to students. Company rules, you know...
...proctor winced but answered as brittley as possible. "I say, I'm not really a student. An undergraduate, that is. I live with them . . . a supervisor . . . you know, to see that everything goes right. Come, come, old man, I'm awfully thirsty...