Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intramural athletics to a pre-war footing will be completed this month when the House basketball, squash and swimming teams meet Yale on Saturday, March 22. The winners of the basketball and "A" squash leagues will travel to New Haven to meet champion outfits there, while the swimmers will race a New Haven team here...
...bear to leave the ramparts of the King's English unmanned. Last week the Times fired away at the word personnel, "this alien collective" from across the Channel. It doubted that "a more degrading, a more ill-favoured, synonym for two or more members of the human race has . . . been coined...
...looked like a relay race, the way conductors were passing each other their batons last week...
Obviously the Philharmonic would use Walter's year shopping for a permanent conductor. Next year's guest conductors were the apparent favorites in the race: Minneapolis' Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell, Paris' Charles Munch and Hollywood Bowl's Leopold Stokowski. All but Stokowski (who once was) are clients of music's Mr. Big, Arthur Judson, the Philharmonic's manager. Judson thus had a firmer hold on the throne than before Rodzinski abdicated (TIME...
...People grow used to one race's normal body odor and do not notice it. But the odor of one race is sometimes strange and objectionable to another race. Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, in A Study of History, tells of a dainty English lady in South Africa who hired Kaffir servants. One little black girl fainted repeatedly in the lady's presence. The inexperienced child was unaccustomed to the shocking smell of white people...