Word: puttering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Registrars Office should not putter around, paternalistically trying to help students over the academic hump by spacing examinations with a yardstick. It should, however, and has tried conscientiously in the past, to eliminate the worst inconveniences from the schedule. Simple majority rule should be the standard: classes with the greatest number of students should have at least one day of breathing space between them. Such a change this year might irretrievably snafu the IBM machines. But in the future the bulk of the College should have to stumble from exam to exam without a break...
Potential B.U. winners include Bill Smith in the 600, John Kelly in the mile and two-mile, and Bill Blair, an outstanding hammer thrower and shot putter. Jim Hescock, who has topped 6'4" in the high jump, will also be favored...
...take much heed of its rights or wrongs." He thought, instead, that the charges of Urania Cottage should be "tempted to virtue" by kindness and by the chance to learn an occupation and good habits, to hear pleasant music and read not only elevating but even enjoyable books, to putter in gardens, and, finally, by the chance to sail, passage-paid by Miss Coutts, to Australia or some other country and into the arms of a pioneer husband...
...from campaigning to win the national amateur golf championship (at 47, he is the oldest U.S. amateur champ in history), won the House seat vacated by Democratic Representative Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who was elected U.S. Senator. When Eisenhower campaigned through Washington, Westland, for "good luck," gave him the putter which sank the winning putt in the national amateur tournament...
...Russia's Amazonian Shot-Putter Galina Zybina, the shot event in a Soviet meet, with a heave of 50 ft. 7.11 in., bettering her own world mark (set in this year's Olympics) by nearly 5 in.; in Moscow...