Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Bajuk at Graz was 19-year-old Robert Grasselli '51, also from a small town in Slovinia, Yugoslavia, Grasselli was too young to be actively engaged in the war, but his parents were in business and, when the communist regime was established in 1945, all business went to the state...
...large H appeared on West Rock at New Haven shortly before game time, but the daubers were never apprehended. Expressions of patriotism for the old school on spots where they can easily be removed are not objected...
Forty-seven-year-old Dr. Semmelweis, professor of obstetrics at the Pesth Lying-in Hospital, knew that he was going mad. He had broken down in tears at a medical meeting; he had begun talking to himself in public places; his wife had already made arrangements to send him to an asylum. His circulars were a pathetic attempt to make the world understand the source of childbed fever before madness destroyed him. When all of them were distributed, he flung himself into the last gesture of his life. Rushing to the dissecting room of Pesth University, he slashed his fingers...
...idyllic love affair (at 38 Semmelweis married a girl of 18) is anchored firmly in fact. "An editor suggested that I have him fall in love sooner," reports Author Thompson. "I said, 'What do you want me to do-make him fall in love with an eleven-year-old girl...
Eugene Acevedo Granillo was only 20 years old, had no business hanging around a bar, and didn't know how to handle his liquor. For these missteps he paid last week with his life. Entering the 101 Café in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, he flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right...