Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...old question about the irresistible force meeting an immovable object should be answered this afternoon when the Eliot and Adams football teams meet in what will probably decide the intramural championship...
Miss Hildegard Brucher, 28-year old city councillor thinks she is the only German student who had to be persuaded to come to Harvard this year under a U. S. government scholarship...
...have molded him to heroic proportions. So have most of his biographers. Lacking anything sounder than a dubious mixture of octogenarians gossip and Missouri legend on which to base their judgments, they have served up a dauntless, do-gooding 19th Century Robin Hood who carried the honor of the Old South in one hand and a parcel for the poor in the other. Few in the ballad audience wanted it otherwise. If the storybook Jesse was short on flesh and blood, at least he satisfied a secret, belly-warming yen for bygone Wild West heroism...
...Boondocks, U.S.S. Seawolf) snapped up the offer. Desperate Men is the result of his year-long sifting of the Pinkerton files. On the strength of this new evidence, Author Horan makes a new appraisal: "[Jesse James] was a completely pitiless killer." His opinion of some of the other Old West badmen who turn up in the files is not much better...
What Jansen called "the rapid rise of the HYRC" was climaxed at a dinner meeting of the Massachusetts Young Republican Council Saturday night when the council adopted a Harvard-sponsored resolution saying that delegates can't be over 36 years old and officers of the Council can't be over...