Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless the hockey team can rise to Olympian heights, tonight's 8:30 o'clock tilt with Dartmouth should be little more than the crowning blow to an already dismal week on the rink. Unable to produce against B.U. or Princeton, there seems little hope for the Crimson to beat a Big Green outfit that has won 15 games in 16 starts this season...
...Manchester Guardian sometimes stoops, but always from an Olympian height. A Guardian critic last week reviewed Mae West, who is playing in London in her bawdy, gaudy old Diamond Lil, found the play "one of these perverse and unpredictable successes" and Mae a "Junoesque lady [who] leered out asthmatic innuendoes in scene after scene of ineffable twaddle." On the whole, he liked it-but he was not to be taken in by the plot. "Some of it," he observed, "one seems to have seen before in a film...
...attack of the disease. On another occasion he had a hallucination that he had seen a baby rise from the sea and clap its hands at him. But Nicolson insists that Shelley was "on the whole" sane: "After all, even Goethe (who assuredly was a man of the most Olympian calm and sanity) once met himself riding along a road on horseback...
...lost precious time because it had 1) underestimated the effects of Britain's decline as a force in Europe, and 2) mistakenly counted on Russian cooperation. The end of the British support for Greece (which left the U.S. in a lonely if Olympian sentry box) ended the first delusion. Moscow ended the second by shunning the reconstruction agencies of the United Nations, by stalling on peace treaties, and by stepping up the pace of Communist movements everywhere. The Russians at last made clear that their rubles were on Western collapse, not recovery...
Toppled from the Olympian heights of Ivy League leadership after a five-week run in that position, the Varsity baseball team will attempt to recoup some portion of its prestige in a double-header with Dartmouth at Soldiers Field today...