Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, according to Freidel, combined to produce in the adolescent F.D.R. a strong sense of social responsibility and a taste for the virile life. Freidel also noted Roosevelt's early concern with being well-liked and his adolescent willingness to accommodate himself to the ways of his prep school classmates in order to gain popularity...
...invited to compete, Kent School eliminated its entrant. This time, the results were reversed, and the lightweights defeated Kent in one of the most difficult races of the week. Even a London newspaper called the race "the best in the regatta so far," and the extra weight of the prep schoolers almost brought victory. Harvard, however, finished in front by two-thirds of a length in 6 minutes, 58 seconds, the first Thames Cup trial won in a time under seven minutes...
After defeating the prep school crew, the eight proved their superiority over Washington Lee High School. This Fourth of July race was never close. Two lengths separated winner and loser...
...that football, after being prohibited by a faculty decree for 11 years, was resurrected by a group of students who had played the game in prep school. The Cambridge Common was selected as the field until the City Council, prompted by indignant towns-people, kicked them...
...would protect himself, as he had always done when Radcliffe freshmen, wild with prep school passion, stormed his sports car to win his favor. Ever haughty, ever proud, Vag had constructed a wall between the world and himself. All that was inane, boorish, and crude was forever shut off from...