Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blind and covered with a milky film; the other was "myopic and protruding, so that it looked like the single eye of an octopus." A short (5 ft. 3), slight man with a scraggly mustache, he made some people think of "a distorted brownie." The nostrils of his long aquiline nose quivered constantly, picking up odors that most people could not smell at all. Odors were his great passion. During his New Orleans period, he translated every article he could find in French periodicals on odors, wrote innumerable essays of his own. In one of them he claimed he could...
...Before long he was smelling trouble in New Orleans: his Cincinnati notoriety had dogged his heels southward. "I am pretty much in the position," he wrote, "of a bookkeeper known to have once embezzled, or of a man who has been in prison, or of a prostitute who has been on the street." In turn he tried Martinique, Philadelphia and New York, soon tired of all. Looking for something different, he signed with a publisher to go to Japan and send back some sketches...
Obviously the kind of football towards which Harvard is being pushed--and it has come a long way on the road already--will contradict its educational aims. In the atmosphere of semi-professional football with its glorification of the Varsity, coaches fighting for survival, and intense competition, the player gains nothing from his participation in sports, that is, he gains nothing of legitimate value. Football, we say, has special conditions, special privileges; but we are not sufficiently sensitive to its professional attitude in football which is corrupting all other sports...
This was only the last of a long list of substantial concessions just granted to the German Government, concessions which were no doubt inescapable, on industry, foreign affairs, de-cartelization, shipping, and reparations. By making these concessions in time, the Allies hoped to strengthen the democratic regime. The plan misfired when Chancellor Adenauer attempted to claim all the credit for himself. By declaring himself opposed to discussing the program with the Social Democrats, he seriously weakened the prestige of parliamentary procedure and the validity of the contract. In protest, Opposition-leader Schumacher called Adenauer "Chancellor of the Allies...
...well bottled up that in the first half, Mullaney was the only Jumbo who could break through and score with any consistency. Mullaney got six field goals in the first period, but was held to two in the second. In that period, Tufts had to rely mainly in the long set-shots on Captain Al Perry...