Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the first serious rift developed between Harvard and its protege Princeton. Often referred to as "the outburst of '26" it resulted from the H-P football game that year when Princeton students absconded with six policeman's hats and the Harvard Lampoon distributed an exceptionally tasteless issue. Our Alumni Bulletin found it impossible to understand how even the immature Poonmen could have been guilty of such bad taste and vulgarity. President Lowell's letter to Princeton's President Hibben made the only possible apology -- that the Lampoon's lack of sense of humor is apt to be replaced...
...rift between Labor and Defense Mobilizer Wilson, the Administration attempted conciliation by appointing as defense manpower administrator, Labor's friend...
...Acute Anxiety." The medic at the door continued his record of those who came into the tent, putting notations beside names: "Gunshot wound . . . acute anxiety . . . broken wrist." Outside, the rain ceased and a single star broke through a rift in the clouds. The artillery hammered...
...full bay, Hollywood gossip hounds followed their latest trail, a rift between Cinemactor Clark Gable and his fourth wife, Sylvia. The baying grew louder when she boarded a plane for a two-week vacation in the Bahamas alone. When photographers asked for a parting marital kiss, Gable huffed: "We don't do that in public," then changed his mind and obliged...
President Sarah Gibson Blanding called a hasty meeting of her Advisory Committee two days later and attempted to smooth over the rift. Meanwhile Katz, with the chairman and one of the two associate professors on his side, was pressing for a decision...