Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rallies habitually provided trouble both before and after the war. But before the war the vocal public reaction was, "Those Harvard boys are at it again." Today the vocal reaction is, "Those Harvard Reds." The Dean's Office doesn't like the sound of the latter. The limitations on rallies are its answer...
...course, no one knows precisely what rules an undergraduate organization must live up to. Like Topsy, they've just growed. To correct this disorder, the Dean's Office and the Student Council are in the midst of preparing a complete codification of the rules. The Dean's Office has suggested one set of rules. The Student Council, after a year and a half of deliberation about the Dean's Office's proposals has come up with a set of its own, differing from the first more in organization than in content. Regardless of which set gets the final...
...approximately 13 years after that, hardly anything was heard about Seltzer's contribution to organized Armageddon. Then, aided by an increase in the number of television-owners, the Roller Derby all of a sudden sprang full-blown, much like Canasta. The true aficionado knows at least a few of the regular contes-around quite so fast as the men, who hit 35 m.p.h., but they provide more action, past performances and thus he knows who is good and who isn't, who the rough one are and who the fast ones are. This, of course, heightens the interest when...
...definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls...
...question of discrimination in membership, Watson said that "it is very hard to do anything about that; I should like to give the problem more thought...