Word: phi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench...
...born in Farmington, Mo., was educated at a Missouri normal school, the University of Chicago, Rush Medical College, made his college wrestling team and Phi Beta Kappa. Like many another successful medico, he is part researcher, part executive, part salesman...
Carlson of West Falmouth, former electronics technician in the Navy, is an honor graduate of Phillip Exeter Academy. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he specialized in electronic physics here. He was elected to a war service scholarship from the State of Massachusetts...
...with a Plan. An athletic six-footer with a Phi Beta Kappa key (Indiana U.), Logan was a "magazine doctor" who had analyzed 110 U.S. periodicals as an English professor at New York University. He joined Cowles in 1939 as a consultant, worked up to be general manager of Look in a year...
Addressing the one hundred and sixty-sixth annual winter dinner of the College Phi Beta Kappa Society, he pleaded for a two-fisted answer to the politiburo oligarchy, which, he asserted, controls every detail of Russian thought through the all-potent N.K.V.D...