Word: necks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beehive with trapdoors. The Gettysburg of the war of the sexes. The Casbah. Well, if you can't dress your girl in khakis and a raincoat, or climb out a street floor window, then you don't deserve even the concessions we've been able to get for you (necking from four until seven on weekdays, until eight on Friday and Sundays, and until eleven on Saturday, except when there are house dances, when you can't neck at all). And take my word for it, there are khakis, raincoats, and street-floor windows in every house...
...recipients are John J. Iselin '56 of Eliot House and Greenville, S.C.; Stephen J. Schneider '56 of Kirkland and Great Neck, N.Y.; and Shirley B. Johnson '56 of Eliot Hall and Wichita, Kansas...
Modern Times. In Launceston, Australia, conforming to the civic motto, "Progress with Prudence," city fathers amended an old bylaw requiring swimmers to wear neck-to-knee bathing suits, decided to allow more modern apparel on the beaches, provided the suits cover at least three inches...
...high, that Renaissance noblemen once placed in their studies as familiar religious objects or models of classic statuary. To these Dreyfus added a collection of the medals that wealthy Italians had struck off for special occasions, and of the small, exquisitely molded bas-relief plaquettes often worn as neck pendants. In pursuit of perfection until his death in 1914, Dreyfus sometimes owned as many as five or six versions of the same medal in succession, settling only for the most flawless. The result of this mania was the collection of 1,306 bronzes (see opposite), that were newly installed this...
...around on their hands while someone held their feet, push brushes across the floor with their noses. One boy was put to bed with a severely upset stomach. Another was hospitalized. Paul Earney, 24-year-old ex-paratrooper, spent a week in the hospital as a result of a neck injury received during the "brush race." Though the hazing was actually relatively mild, the university committee on student organizations suspended Delta Sigma Phi until at least 1958, ordered that its "house must be closed, the bills settled, the organization disbanded, and not reconvened under any other name or subterfuge...