Word: norms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...queried Quaeritor as to the value in studying such primitive peoples. "Well, it's valuable to escape the social orientation of the dominant European transplant of this country. Socio-economically speaking, the norm motivations of the Jivarro reveal a ritualized libido only slightly modified by environmental quasi-determinants, you know." Quaeritor cracked a coconut and drained it of its juice...
...watch the next game, then surged out into downtown streets, breaking store windows and thumping bystanders to show their displeasure. Maurice insists he has calmed down ("I'm too old to fight"). But just last week his Gallic temper burst out, and he whacked Detroit Forward Norm Ullman with his stick, opened up a 7-in. gash on Ullman's forehead. Explained the Rocket: "Ullman speared me twice. He deserved...
...York before she ran short of cash. She wound up with a walk-on part in the road company of Teahouse of the August Moon, and one day while on tour she wandered into Seattle's Colony, an offbeat supper club. She talked Owner Norm Bobrow into letting her try a few numbers with the band, brought down the house. Three years later, Pat was still at the Colony. "How long will she stay?" Bobrow's friends kept asking him. He always gave them the same answer: "Until Rodgers and Hammerstein write a musical...
...which the Houses often fail to provide--and see in them an opportunity to get to know a small group of people fairly intimately. Academically, according to a tabulation made some years ago by Dean Watson's office, Club members are about on a par with the college norm, except for a rather horrifying dip during the punching season...
Allston Burr Senior Tutors view the policy change as a return to the norm. "It's the plan we've used except for last year," said Robert M. O'Clair, Senior Tutor of Kirkland House, "And it's pretty sensible for the most part. One of the points of the new House system is to make rooms available that everybody can live...