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Word: pointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard got off to a good start, pulling to a four point lead in the opening minutes. A burst of life from the Quakers, however, soon put them ahead where they stayed until the final buzzer. HARVARD (63) g f p Rockwell, lf 2 0 4 Gabler 0 0 0 Bramhall, rf 0 1 1 McCurdy 5 2 12 Prior, c 8 2 19 Smith 3 2 8 Covey, lg 3 2 8 Gannon, rg 1 0 2 Crosby 0 0 0 Davis 2 2 6 Petrillo 1 1 3 Total...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Penn Quintet Hands Varsity 15th Straight Defeat, 78-63 | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

Council members in discussing the proposed survey with Heaman said that, although they fully respected him and his office, they thought that outside experts might introduce a fresh point of view with their suggestions, and would certainly clear the air of student objections, as expressed in the poll results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Votes 4-1 for Food Survey; Houghteling Sees No Rivals to NSA | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

Perhaps the most interesting selection in the magazine is John Snow's critique of "The Naked and The Dead." Snow manages to take apart the professional critics neatly and without an undue display of emotion, and then proceeds to point out the qualities of Mailer's novel which never occurred to those who typed him as a straight Dos Passos-Hemingway disciple. This is a considered review which stresses affirmative qualities in the novel unnoticed by most commentators...

Author: By Charles W. Balley, | Title: On the Shelf | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...Another point made by officers of the Youth for Democracy is that names of club executives should not go down in the permanent record. During the past few months, however, their position on this was hardly clear. They seemed perfectly willing, up until yesterday, to agree with the Student Council. The RAYD now feels that the Dean's Office may have executive lists, provided these lists are destroyed annually. This appears to be a reasonable suggestion; unfortunately the RAYD has made it a little too late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The End of RAYD | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

...stoop, pick a white flower from a hedgerow and fasten it, without haste, in his lapel. Everywhere in the meadow men rose and moved forward with him." And so the bridge is taken, and so the Colonel dies, and so the battalion comes to "The Hill," a point beyond Caen, where the Germans had held long and stubbornly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life & Death of a Battalion | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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