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Word: mannered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monosexuality of life amidst the monuments of New Haven during the week may be an overemphasis, yet an Eli's social life is geared for the weekend, much in the same manner as that of a girl at an isolated women's college. For on weekends the campus is indundated with females from Vassar, Connecticut, Smith, and other foreign territories...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Female Yale: 'Plainly Attractive' | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...department will allow non-Honors juniors to petition for tutorial on a trial basis. White said that the new policies have been adopted both in accordance with the Committee an Educational Policy's recent proposals and in order to "weigh the student's record in a judicious manner rather than an automatic...

Author: By Stephen S. Graham, | Title: Social Relations Dept. Drops Honors Generals | 11/20/1958 | See Source »

...tutorial are not necessarily antitheses, and this is one factor which makes continued participation by the Masters in non-Honors tutorial discussion desirable. Another is the disappointing inactivity of most of the departments. Whether made in the departments or the Houses, tutorial changes should be approached in a creative manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Honors Tutorial Revisions | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

...broadcasting "trivial" affairs in a simple manner "so that Southern people can understand," Mrs. Alford concluded, much can be done to "approach the problems that face the South...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Carolinian Speaker Asserts Radio Can Change Southern Ideas | 11/13/1958 | See Source »

...Suit (by Albert Beich and William H. Wright; based on Edwin Code's novel) originally wore it to a costume party. Normally a man with a mouse manner, he works in his wife's family bank and quails before the Babbitts and snobs and stuffed shirts in his wife's family. Then, all at once, he takes to wearing the dog suit as he chooses and begins to act out his daydreams. One time he bites a lady, another time a banker; he scandalizes the depositors, horrifies the in-laws he hates, disturbs the wife he loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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