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Word: like (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because of athlete preference? I knew a high school boy who got polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly against a human being because he could not overcome the crippling effects of disease. Everyone wants to help the poor athlete, but few consider the physically handicapped, than to the athlete! I wonder if those who extol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More On Athletics | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Roger H. Morris and Michael G. Yam in started their campaign at noon yesterday when their jointly-owned wire recorder, blaring forth songs and chants, was placed in the foyer of the Union. In the evening Thomas F. Powers showed up for supper in a brilliant red Superman like cape. Tastefully dangling from his neck was the legend, "let them eat cake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noise Absent as Smoker Election Campaign Begins | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...listen to a speaker. Berrien feels this often becomes a fourth classroom lecture, which is exactly what he tries to avoid. He supposes that some students are "organically spectators," but he is still anxious to strike a successful balance between speakers and student discussion groups, and he would like to introduce more round tables and debates...

Author: By Petter B. Taub, | Title: Now in Fourth Year, Modern Language Center Mixes Scholarship with Informal Atmosphere | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...damned and people like himself are saved, I would suggest to Father Feeney that I am destined for better company than he is," he added...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Public Debate Offer Refused By Fr. Feeney | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

While Nicholas K. Trynin '52, stood resplendent in a raccoon coat at one end of Wellesley College Lake, C. France McCoy '52 stationed himself at the other shore. The four Wellesley lasses, viewing the proceedings from an indeterminate mid-point, decided the two men looked like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesleyites, Raccoon Coat Disprove Old Harvard Adage | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

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