Word: quainter
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Died. James Gamble Rogers, 80, architect of the old school, whose modern masterwork is Manhattan's enormous Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and whose quainter works include many college buildings (one Rogers building at Yale is Gothic on one side, Georgian on the other); in his Medical Center...
...election of Sir William Beveridge to Parliament (TIME, Nov. 20) constitutes one of time's quainter revenges, for Sir William is Master of the Oxford College that expelled Shelley for advocating the ideas for which Sir William is now honored...
...danger of being thrown out of college because his scholarship was taken away. "Karp" rounded up the money to keep him going. Another time, when "Karp" was giving a night school course in Russian history, he got a badly mangled final exam paper from one of his quainter pupils: a white-haired old school marm. She sent him a post card, admitting that she hadn't done very well, but saying she didn't know why. What could the Professor do? He didn't know: He gave her a C plus...
...three colleagues discovered, at their stunt theatres in Hoboken, the awkward charms of the dramas of the '60s, there has been a general scramble for these dusty manuscripts. This one is an Augustin Daly play, first produced in 1867, and, to make it just a little quainter, an old theatre in the Bowery has been resuscitated to house...
...Freshman basketball five will meet the strong Worcester Academy quainter this afternoon on the Academy court for their last game before the clash with the Yale yearlings, on Saturday. Although the Worcester team has not fared especially well this season, it has been defeated by the strongest of its opponents by only a few points, while the Crimson Freshmen have been showing stellar form throughout the season except for their defeat at the hands of the Andover five, which also defeated the Yale 1924 team last Saturday. In the last few games the Freshmen have been speeding up their team...