Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rushing figures are significant: Brown gained 345 yards to Harvard's 109, and the locals had three drives falter in Brown territory. Engle would frequently have three big tackles in his defensive line-Walters, Hill, and Colo-throw in Chernak and Hodosh, and it was just too much...
...contains an equal amount of assigned reading. In some cases this is due to departments that won't purchase enough volumes, in others to professors who assign out-of-print editions. Lamont officials say they try, to adjust the number of copies of a book to student demand as much as possible...
...suspect that for my luxury, some $10,000 are spent (a wild guess based on 30 rooms each with 30-odd chairs, at $10 a chair) at a time when even those of us who don't know much about what goes on in the outside world have some inkling that affairs are not at their normal smoothness, and education in particular is not rolling in gold. We are warned by college presidents that if the tax payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want...
...this tripe. Except for two or three lapses into straight slapstick and a somewhat corny climax, the dialogue is consistently sharp, unexpected, and often brilliant. Michael Wilding, as lord and footman, gets just the right blend of cynicism and playfulness, though his eyes do twinkle a bit too much on occasion, Anna Neagle is pleasantly attractive and eager in the female lead, and she also demonstrates that infuriating twinkle. Joshua, portrayed by Tom Walls is a marvelous English-gentleman type, both in word and deed...
...wooden goal posts except for one game about 14 years ago when metal posts were tried. The steel markers were uprooted in four or five hours, carried over the bridge, and dumped into the river. One of the posts got firmly entrenched in an upright position and caused so much trouble to passing shells before it could be removed that the authorities went back to wooden posts...