Word: olla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What Is the Reason?" The nation's first postwar generation continued to converse in Latin, to eat their breakfast of dinner leftovers (olla podrida, alias slum), to debate such questions as: "What is the reason that though all rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not increase?" By the turn of the century, Noah Webster, '78, had moved into a house up the street to begin his dictionary, and Eli Whitney, '92, was beginning his career as inventor and one of the great forces in the Industrial Revolution...
Last week, in a record-breaking turnout, Graham won a precarious victory. He polled 295,000 votes to 245,000 for Corporation Lawyer Willis Smith. But Robert R. .("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds and a pig breeder named Olla Ray Boyd had polled a total of 62,000 votes between them-enough to deny Graham a majority and to force a runoff next month if Smith demanded it. Smith probably would...