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Inter-school athletic programs failed to get a nod from the body. Since some graduate schools have no teams to field in any sport, the Joint Student Association felt it would be better to keep intra-University athletics on an informal, elastic level...
...clear the pit." The men began to drift off the dirt-floored circle; the chanting bets still continued. "I'll bet a hundred" or "A hundred to eighty." The usual bet was $100. The big ones-$1,000 and up-were made more quietly, by a whisper, a nod, a flick of a finger. On the wall was a sign saying "No Profanity Allowed." There was none. In the audience, one woman fed a baby from a bottle...
...book will probably be received with polite but uneasy praise; his specific proposals will be picked apart by those who are nonplussed by his general principles. Most readers, however, will probably nod in agreement-and pass on, a mite more disturbed than before, to the daily chores of a world of expediency...
...Terrible-tempered Harold Ickes gave salty-tongued Jack Garner none of his sass. Related Garner: "I don't ever recall having had a conversation with Ickes. We just speak or nod. We don't seem...
Still awaiting President Truman's nod, the bill, according to a high White House spokesman, probably will be signed over the weekend. It would hike single vets' payments from 865 to 875, and would bulge married men's checks up to 330, according to the number of their dependents...