Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BAKER FIELD, NEW YORK--If last year's football records mean anything, the Columbia-Harvard football game should be the only soft spot on the Columbia schedule, a breather between Rutgers, which is out to get the Lions after suffering its lone defeat of last year at their hands, and Yale, which whipped Columbia last fall...
Like most other college coaches, the Crimson's track and cross country leader, Jaakko Mikkola, has a special fondness for Freshmen. "We need good Freshman runners badly," he says, "because they are the core of our future Varsities--successful Freshman teams mean successful Varsities and vice versa...
...spent nearly all her life in mean dwellings and six years of it in Rumanian jails. Now she lives in three great houses, moving almost every night because she fears assassins. (Scores of other Rumanians shift their sleeping quarters from night to night because they fear Ana's secret police.) One of her houses belonged to Prince Brancoveanu. One belonged to Nicolae Malaxa, big industrialist and speculator. And one belonged to red-haired Magda Lupescu, ex-King Carol's mistress and now his wife...
...around the table settled the details. The U.S. had originally demanded that the Big Four "control" the Berlin currency. It was likely, however, that the U.S. would give in on the issue of four-power currency "control," settle for currency "supervision," whatever that might turn out to mean in practice...
...somehow the Magdalena had to be kept open. Much of the nation's economic life depended on this hardening artery. Said El Colombiano: "Paralysis of the Magdalena would mean a tremendous blow to Colombia. The Magdalena system must be saved from ruin...