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Word: longingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven is in tip-top physical condition and will be ready for Harvard Saturday. Even Captain Bill Stack, who was bumped in the Princeton game, is set to travel 60 minutes against the Crimson. Coach Pond's men have been in-and-outers all year long, but they are convinced that Saturday will find them at their best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burr, Harrison Impressive in Yale's Passing Drill as Eli Grows Optimistic | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...Administration may counter that it has in the past recognized this necessity of creating frozen associate professorships when "exceptional circumstances" warranted. It's interpretation, of course, limited "exceptional circumstances" to cases where men had been retained on the faculty so long that any sensible or humane criteria dictated their permanent appointment on the grounds of "commitment." Obviously the spirit of the Faculty resolution goes leagues beyond this concept. The Faculty was training its sights on flexibility: on the use of frozen associate professorships to corral capable men whose appointments come up at times when the ordinary quota would require that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALKING TURKEY | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...year sitting around, unemployed, licking their chops while waiting for Thanksgiving and the Salvation Army Banquet. So, being, as everyone knows, a frightful opportunist, he decided to make the people like him by giving them Thanksgiving a week early so that they wouldn't have to wait so long. And he did, and they won't, and the Salvation Army objected like Hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...play a floating rather than a smashing game. The thought of Macdonald catching them flat-footed and scooting around them on reverses is apt to make them even more wary. Harvard's attack should be able to function for a succession of short gains even if there are no long touchdown dashes...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...statement concerning the most widely publicized Harvard athletic injury in history was made in answer to repeated inquiries as to the reason the Crimson leader was sidelined for such a long time. It concluded by saying "Macdonald now is in first class physical condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Macdonald-- | 11/22/1939 | See Source »

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