Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extremely important for the College. In the 30 years of its existence, the Fund has contributed $8,000,000 to its unrestricted endowment and, at the present rate, will add $800,000 each year. Since of the $229,000,000 in the Harvard endowment only $39,000,000 lie in the unrestricted area, the role the Fund has played in the development of the financial potentialities of the College is obvious...
...keeping the wife's bedroom a romantic place." On bed alignment: "The head of the bed should be north or south . . . It is comparatively unimportant whether the head or the feet are at the north end of the bed, but it is very important that . . . the body should lie . . . south-north or north-south." On what to wear: "A very long, pure silkworm silk nightgown, sleeveless with a lace top, wide, and so long that it trails for about eight inches on the ground when one stands up . . . no horrid draughts anywhere." On twin beds: "An invention...
Best chances for Crimson points lie in both relays, the 600, the 1000, and the two-mile run. The mile-relay team of Bob Weil, Mike Robertson, Al Wills, and French Anderson stands a good chance of winning. The two-mile team of Dick Norris, Bill Morris, Otis Gates, and either Dick Wharton or Jim Cairns will also finish high...
...these people, in varying degrees, were physically handicapped. But their worst trouble did not lie in their weakened or useless muscles. They had crutches in their minds. Ridding the physically handicapped of their mental crutches is the job of an organization that has already changed the lives and attitudes of Martin, Ellen and Mr. Juskalian. Its name: Courage...
Jean Santeuil has no such stature. The Master is young, shy, afraid. As in Remembrance, Proust starts his novel with the hero's memories of having to go to bed as a boy-"the wretched candle must be put out and he lie there . . . abandoned . . . to the horrible, the shapeless suffering which, little by little, would grow as vast as solitude." But Proust, with youthful naivete, tried to protect his own thin skin and his mother's feelings by pretending that he was not writing autobiography. In an introduction to Jean Santeuil, he declared the book...