Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat by Columbia brings the Crimson record to two losses, no wins in Ivy League competition. The fencing team lost to Cornell 16-11, three weeks ago. In this meet, Don Tingle and Mike Woolf each won two of three matches to aid Cabral in giving the Crimson a victory, 6-3 in the sabre division...
...even shorter oral--reputedly the shortest on record--is told of a graduate student up for his Ph.D. in American Civilization. His first problem was to trace the sexual imagery in The Scarlet Letter...
...number of applicants for admission rises, the level of proficiency and of entrance standards also increases. The Class of 1958, which indicated such an unusual proclivity for doctoral training, was the "brightest," i.e. the most academically promising, class ever to be admitted. Each subsequent class has broken the 1958 record, and there is every reason to believe that the trend will continue for at least ten years...
...capsule was a prime example of the kind of advance planning that has turned a small, second-rank outfit into one of the industry's highest flying companies, standing 13th among all defense contractors. McDonnell Aircraft's sales last year hit a record $442 million (up 32%), while net income climbed to a peak $10 million, with still more gains forecast for fiscal 1959. Current backlog alone amounts to $600 million. All this from a fledgling that delivered its first design barely 16 years ago and four years ago fell into the kind of trouble that could have...
Wifey's Buddy. Poe was one of those drinkers to whom one jigger was the same as a jug. He enriched Thomas White, the "illiterate, vulgar although well-meaning" editor of the Messenger, but White was forced to record: "Poe has flew the track." Another time he wrote Poe, fearing "that you would again sip the juice," adding the wisdom of a spacious age: "No man is safe who drinks before breakfast." As if drink were not bad enough, Poe almost certainly was a drug addict; more than one of his fictional characters confessed to being "a bonden slave...