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Word: prepped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such enlightened over-acting is, of course, quite difficult, and in general the cast does very well at it. Particularly convincing are Marion Spencer as the neurotic mother and Russell Enoch as her son. The latter looks very much like F. Scott Fitzgerald and plays the prep-school-boy-in-love type with just the right kind of awkwardness...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Intimate Relations | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...tutees has more truth behind it than many would like to admit. Some Houses are so off-balance in the direction of the sciences or humanistic that they must import tutors from other Houses to compensate for their deficiencies. Other Houses are noted for their high percentages of prep-Schol graduates, or their athletes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dropping Preferential House Admissions | 3/1/1955 | See Source »

...Cambridge, meanwhile, the freshmen lost to a powerful Williston Academy team 52, to 23. The visitors set a 1:32.9 national prep school record in te 200-yard free style relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swim Team Beats Strong Tiger Squad, 54-30 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...decided that his scholarship to Cheshire was awarded by the Yale Alumni Association. "Naturally, this statement had a profound affect in Harvard and Yale pedagogical circles. Here was the crimson truth that Yale was admittedly subsidizing boys at prep school for eventual matriculation at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ivy Code: Case History of a 'Good Deed' | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

...League admissions officials have noted that there is virtually no way of checking on who might indirectly be paying for an applicants final year at prep school. In this case, it was only an application "freak" that brought an apparent violation to light to light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ivy Code: Case History of a 'Good Deed' | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

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