Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvardman's pinched purse has already caused him to take another look at the value of the departmental advising system. The General Education Report has recognized the weaknesses as well as the potentialities of a function loosely designed as the left arm of tutorial, but most of its pregnant recommendations for worthwhile advising have fallen still-born. While the problem has always been an especially difficult one, the present inadequacy of many advisor-advisee relationships cannot be overlooked by a University which has been forced to raise both tuition and rent within the space of a term...
...sorts, had been playing Lorna, the prizefight manager's floozy in a South African production of Golden Boy. Some testified that she was something like Lorna in real life. Others testified that she was given to inexplicable bouts of hysteria and fainting; that she had said she was pregnant; that she had accepted her fare home and ?350 from a nightclub owner...
...this end, she established homes where selected Aryans might meet and mate. She moved into Paris and arranged hospitalization for French girls pregnant by German soldiers. She set up a "bonus" scheme to buy their babies and send them to German homes. She had four children by two previous husbands, Heiszmeyer seven from a previous marriage. In 1940, when they announced their wedding in the Berlin press, the pair declared, "We have given our eleven children a joint home." Later their family was increased to twelve...
...Giegengack's power-pregnant Yalies, who whacked the Varsity last week 82 to 27, finished a strong second behind NYU in the team scoring. They won the hurdles (George Cook), the shot (Him Fuchs), and the mile relay (Burdick, Stoltman, Paradise, Lucke), and scored in the 35-pound weight throw, the broad jump, and the pole-vault for a total of 23 1/4 points...
...wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical discussions of socialism, loveless matings on rooming-house beds, artful schemes to marry pregnant girls to somebody else...