Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldfashioned, partly because people don't want their homes to "look funny." Also, houses present a more difficult problem. People do a wide variety of things in their houses, and each activity requires different conditions. The environment of the living room, where Junior is picking on Little Sister, may not be suitable to Dad, who is listening to the radio...
When a surgeon performs an operation to remove gallstones, one of the most important things is to get them all out. If he leaves any behind, it may mean another operation...
...Harvard first team sipped champagne-an old pre-game ritual. By tradition, the first toast is given by the captain of the last Harvard team to whip Yale (Fran Lee of the '41 team). But Lee failed to show up, and a substitute was pressed into service. It may have been a favorable omen. Next afternoon, on the first play of the game, a crimson-shirted Harvard halfback cut back through tackle and raced 80 yards to a touchdown...
...Wild Bill's fault or not (he won his share of games before he came to Tech), undergrads demanded that his head roll and that athletes once again be bought, retail or wholesale. A month ago, President Robert E. Doherty told protesting students: "Some of you may have come to the wrong school...
...young poet who became a Trappist monk (TIME, Oct. 11), was a bestseller in its fifth printing. Thomas Merton's book was not designed to entertain; it does not offer readers escape-or tips on how to be popular or successful. In fact, the popular and successful reader may be made most uncomfortable by The Seven Storey Mountain. A sample of the book is its description of New York City's Negro quarter, Harlem...