Word: lone
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...primarily the fault of educators. Wrote Hutchins: "Even a perfect educational system would have a hard time setting up an effective cultural opposition to the storm of trash and propaganda that now beats upon the American from birth . . . Comic books and Betty Grable, the Lone Ranger and Milton Berle are the diet of our children." The only hope, Hutchins thinks, is subscription radio or heavily endowed university networks-neither of which seems likely. His gloomy conclusion: "We can expect no improvement until the day the American people rise up and hurl their radio sets into the streets. But that...
Early each morning, the Service's lone truck picks up all mail for Harvard, except student mail and letters with no more explicit address than "Harvard"; these are sent to Weld Hall for further interpretation. The mail is already sorted by buildings at the Post Office, and Greene's office integrates the mailbags into seven piles, for delivery to seven sub-stations located around the outskirts of the Harvard territory...
William Longer, Republican from North Dakota, who was almost barred from his Senate seat in 1941 on grounds of "moral turpitude" growing out of some old charges of corruption while he was governor of North Dakota. He has since made several Senators regret their votes to seat him. A lone wolf, incapable of cooperation, 63-year-old Isolationist Langer has probably introduced more trivial bills than any other Senator, once proposed that the U.S. withhold the $3,750,000,000 loan from Britain and use the money to provide urinalysis for U.S. citizens...
...hard-eyed passion for champion bird dogs which The Bronx reserves for baseball players. Last week, with the town jammed to the last spare room by the annual pilgrimage of top U.S. dog men, Grand Junction's waitresses, its housewives, its postmaster, and the room clerk at its lone hotel had a new canine hero-a small (46 Ibs.) but dashing pointer-named Shore's Brownie Doone...
...hard-checking defense, headed by sophomore Frank Kittredge, broke up most of the Crimson's threatening plays, and goalie Jim Burns was brilliant in the Yale nets. It was not until late in the third period that Doug Anderson took advantage of a major penalty shot to score the lone Harvard goal...