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...Crimson was greeted by a much tougher and meaner Bulldog in the third quarter. In fact, the dog was downright, menacing. Only Taylor was able to gain appreciable yardage...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Crimson Eleven Trounces Elis, 14-6; Taylor, Grana Lead Team to Victory | 11/26/1962 | See Source »

...this spring's fifteen. "We have many welcome additions from the football team, and for that reason, we should play a much meaner and faster brand of rugby than we did last fall," team secretary Lee Freemen remarked yesterday, looking over the prospects with captain John Van-Schalkwyk and treasurer Keith Julian...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Rugby Club Plans Vacation Trip With Three Games in St. Louis | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...best, Bissell has the curious ability to affect his fans like four beers on a hot afternoon, and to chill his de tractors like four draughts of anti-beer, a potion (mercifully still to be invented) that leaves a man progressively soberer and meaner. Good Bye, Ava is not exactly anti-beer; it is simply a little flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...prefix to his universally respected signature), and enters Harvard. Once here, he soon verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from the cranium of F. L. Seidel, himself a great Advocate critic a couple of years ago, a man than which there was no meaner Martini mixer. Experience becomes instinct, and criticism is much easier than it looks: reject stories written by those who are not your friends, particularly unwashed people; accept stories containing delectable bons mots in foreign languages, the more exotic the better. How to pick poetry is a more complex problem: obey your...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Asked Gilliam: "Can you handle this load with your present facilities for welfare, recreation, police and education? . . . We don't understand juvenile delinquency. We've been told there is no such thing as a bad boy. Well, we're wrong. Most juvenile delinquents are meaner than hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: The Shook-Up Generation | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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