Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduates have lost the traditional curtain-raiser only once, in 1938, and there is not much chance of it happening again this year. The return to the fold of Bill Graham, junior breaststroker, has greatly bolstered the team's strength, particularly in the medley relay...
...British university standards, many "could not... either read or write...Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect, and to discriminate... they read rapidly, desperately, and far too much ... and the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will probably suffer for the rest of their lives...
...more on inspiration than system." For instance, Phillips had a fabulous memory for where he had put his books, and consequently felt no need for keeping them in any particular order on the shelves. The resulting jumble caused his assistants no end of trouble. Phillips also was as much concerned with having people interested in his books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print book by some obscure French humorist for someone who wanted it. And if a student needed a book...
...freshmen didn't outclass the Terriers, but they played a much cooler and more alert game as a team. Except for poor coverage on rebounds from the offensive board, Floyd Wilson's Yard- ling's usually got the jump on a loose ball...
...Every guest will head homeward after the party with not, one, but two gifts from Santa Claus '49--one a badly needed article of clothing, specified by the parents, and the other a useless toy, which the child is expected, if he runs true to form, to value much more highly...