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Word: maying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleased to see that their pleasant life has been selected as a model for briefing cadets on the vagaries of the outside world. But local fraternities, who have found that visiting cadets adapt to Amherst's casual college life with incredible rapidity, are even now wondering if the article may touch off a march of joy-bent gray legions through the quiet Massachusetts hills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highlights of College's Fun Given Cadets | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

Each of the seven Houses is conducting a separate campaign for its own DP. The deadline for solicitation has been set for May 5, the date when assurance papers must be signed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett to Start $900 Fund Drive For DP Adoption | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...explain why I am mentioning George Rinehart's "Boy Meets Girl" first. It is not the best item in Signature, nor is it the worst. But for awhile it gave me a hard time. I started to read: "Behold! For this is that of Beowulf, of Ecgtheow the son. May his hair grow long in heaven...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...May his hair grow long in hell, said I; here's another "think piece." But I continued to read with an open mind. It didn't make much sense--in fact, I had just decided to dismember it, and was tucking the napkin under my chin, when I happened to notice the title. "Boy Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...division of departmental loyalties and teaching time may not go smoothly in the near future. But if the Faculty can make the scheme come off, the level of a Harvard education will take a long leap upwards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholars in GE | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

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