Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale apparently is too close to being a one-man team for comfort. Harvard has no outstanding star like Booth, but it has a well-balanced batch of material and has no outstanding weakness, now that the Michigan game has proved that the line can function. One defect is that this Harvard team lacks the finesse...
...very definitely traced towards the language requirements, which stand like nearly unsurmountable barriers in the minds of a goodly proportion of the undergraduate body. The distributional courses, too, while not provocative of the same degree of unpleasantness as are the language requirements, have ensnared many an unsuspecting man in their toils...
...Significance. As the branches of science become more complex, their interrelation becomes more evident, the general problems of science more clearly insoluble. In astronomy, physics, biology, lengthy strides have been made in the last 20 years toward the realization that man knows less and less about more and more. Scientists to whom science is more than an enthralling game are consequently ''turning back." the Pragmatists to Philosophy, the mystics to Religion...
...taken to writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a strong silent farmer overhears the hired man seducing his wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus has a heart of gold but a terrible...
Taylor knew other whites. In a dive, he sold them opium at $1 a paper. Another place was a bowling-alley. When one bowler saw him bunching the pins for the next man, Taylor had to leave through a window. Life was not all work. The white boys had a game "Stray Goose." One boy ran, until caught and pummeled. Taylor helped. When he was 16 he put on a cowboy's costume and strutted to a dance. The girls were nicer than Big Maude's. He began to dream and want money. He told his mother what...