Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shells will start as usual at the Charles Street (subway) Bridge and stroke a mile and three quarters to the MIT boat house near the Cottage Farm Bridge. The additional distance on the Charles River course may prove an advantage to both Tech and the Crimson...
Missing from the freshman bus were two key members of the team, Ed Grutzner and Jack Kiggen. Grutzner has flu, and Kiggen is suffering from a painful twisted knee sustained in spring soccer practice. While the team, strong in runners, may be able to fill in for quarter miler Grutzner, discus thrower Kiggen's untimely absence today may prove disastrous...
...American woman whose children are out from under--at Harvard, say--is truly alarming. Lost, she turns up at the local women's club, gardening, or ladies' aid, and thinks of what her children were like a few years ago. And then, on the second Sunday of May, comes Her Day, and with it a box of chocolate brandy delights. Ah, mother love...
...remember mother," assured that one remembers best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired. --from the May 9, 1947, CRIMSON
...Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...