Word: lot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women stress that they would rather have a dram of a good perfume than a gallon of not-so-good brands. This general rule holds true except for cologne, which a lot of women like...
...Sawyer. Sawyer is quick and knows a lot about wrestling. As freshman captain last year, he did well against good competition...
General public opinion notwithstanding, most students here are quite normal. But the staff of the Grant Study takes exception to the old saw that normal people are the most uninteresting of the lot. In a small brick building on Holyoke Street, next to the Hygiene Department, the Study has been trying "to understand better the adjustment of healthy college people" for the past 11 years...
Indeed, there is a lot about this business that seems fishy. The physical contact is not what it might be and points are traded back and forth too evenly. More than one jam reminded me of the jockey's query, "Where's number two? Let him through; let him through." There is also the attempt to infuse the Roller Derby with a big-time sports atmosphere (cf. announcing halftime scores of other matches, which nobody honestly cares about...
...their earlier demand that England supply a balance in Continental affairs to any strengthening of Germany. They see--as do the Germans--that England and the U.S. are bidding against the Russians for German friendship. They think the stakes are too high to play, since it will take a lot of yielding to match the Russian bid of a united Germany. They suspect a willingness in Britain and the U.S. to rearm Germany as an enemy of the East...