Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After secretly questioning Fisher for four hours, the Council voted him out of office, 10 to 2, on a motion introduced by Herbert J. Spiro '50., Spiro's proposal followed the recommendation of the NSA delegation, which considered the matter in a closed meeting just before vacation...
...Graylock in the Berkshires not only didn't have any snow, but the flash floods of the past week washed out most of the roads. As a matter of fact there was better skiing fifty miles from New York City than in most of New England at Christmastime...
...system" goes roughly like this: a player in a major sport gets his big "H" even if he sees only five seconds of action against Yale--but an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how many records he may smash, has to be content with a small letter. And if a player in any sport misses his Yale game, whatever the reason, he doesn't get a letter...
...Ashton has his hero stay close to home, the Russians sent their Prince Charming chasing around the world after the glass slipper's owner so that they could have a whirl at Turkish, Spanish and African dances. Said Ashton: "The trouble with most long ballets is that no matter how good they are, they tend to wear an audience out." His trick: "We start off with a heavy dose, let each succeeding act get shorter & shorter." It worked. At week's end, the next twelve performances of Cinderella were solidly sold out, and three weeks more were added...
...matter what the explanation, the 1948 epidemic would go down in the official statistics as one of the worst in history. Through Dec. 11, the U.S. Public Health Service had received reports of 27,032 cases, close to the alltime record of 27,363 cases (from a smaller population) for the full year 1916. But was it really as bad as it looked? The experts were not sure. Diagnosis and reporting of polio are better than they used to be: years ago doctors recognized only cases that resulted in paralysis; now they can often spot the milder cases that used...