Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON believes this to be proper material for a story on a subject as bewildering as the Dartmouth incident. The paragraphs in question were in no way intended to slander the victim, to condone the instigators, or to make light of the tragedy...
...first-edition squad is good; when the playoffs for the team were held last fall, one of the men who didn't make it was Dave Gorman, junior champion of Cincinnati. But the group is still headed for a rough time when it embarks for the South...
Besides these playoffs, Barclay won't have much work to do with the team. Golf is famous for its remote-control system of coaching, since the only way to improve is to practice by yourself. By the time a man is good enough to make the team, he presumably knows enough to keep his eye on the ball and not use a driver in a sandtrap...
Washburn's wife, who also made the trip, became the first woman over to make the top of Mt. McKinley and is supposed to have climbed higher than any other woman in the world...
...their suits. Basically, he is saying that the man who typifies our urban eastern civilization, the rising executive who rides the commuter's locals and hopes to send his children to good prep schools, is caught in a horrible treadmill. A rut is what you make of it; even Mr. Marquand's social anthropologist--a fascinating literary device, based partially on fact--indicates that he is tired of the South Seas rut and would like another. It is foolish to make treadmillers out of men who, as a class, are certainly no more frustrated than, for instance, successful novelists...