Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Lords, the largely ceremonial upper house that has been called "the last infirmary of noble minds." Instead, Mister Wedgwood Benn, as he insisted on calling himself, ran for re-election from Bristol South-East, and easily won. But the High Court ruled that a peer's male heir, ''lawfully begotten," may not renounce his title. Protesting that he was thus ''the victim of my father's virtue." "the Reluctant Peer'' was forced to stand aside while the defeated Tory candidate occupied his seat in Commons...
...have the "smartest body of undergraduates in America." This year's average Reed freshman ranked in the top 4% of all U.S. students taking college board exams; one-third of the class was in the top 2%. Reed leads the country in ratio of Rhodes scholarships to male graduates (1 to 71), in percentage of graduates winning Woodrow Wilson fellowships, and in percentage of graduates who have gone on to become college and university teachers, notably in science. Just for variety, Reed also lists such odd alumni as a talented writer who became a convicted stickup artist, a union...
...Note: The Winsor Map Room is indeed in good order this year under a male attendant. It was last year that the sweet old ladies held away...
...churlish not to buy cold the new weather, fur the coat new with party the dress in advent of time for the party on, say, Dec. 21. Christmas costs also trigger the seasonal crook. An article titled "Christmas Reactions" in the American Practitioner and Digest of Treatment cited "one male patient who routinely passed checks during the Yuletide to be able to buy the family presents adequate in the male role...
Though supplies of thalidomide for testing as a tranquilizer-sleeping pill were called in from U.S. investigators last April, cancer researchers may still use it -certainly in male patients and women beyond child-bearing age. It is not available to physicians generally, and even the few qualified cancer investigators who can get thalidomide will probably wait for it to show results in animals before they give it to patients...