Word: ruggeder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the mountain climbers who swarm into Nepal each year to see what heights they may surmount, there is one rule of thumb about the hiring of native porters. For climbs under 18,000 ft., the mountaineers usually pick their men from among the 5,000 Sherpa families living in...
Then the Japanese attack, and for the rest of the movie, Bergman drifts among the battles like a montage of Brünnhilde and Florence Nightingale-until she turns, toward the end, into Mrs. Moses, and marches about 100 motherless children across miles of rugged country, through the enemy'...
The varsity squash team defeated a tenacious Army squad 7 to 2 Saturday in Hemenway Gymnasium for its second victory of the season. The Cadets gave the undefeated Crimson a rugged test, upsetting the varsity's number two and three men before finally succumbing.
At Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon, the powerful Crimson squash team, fresh from a 9-0 win over Wesleyan, will meet its first stiff competition of the season when it faces a rugged Army squad. The varsity is favored, but Army always has a strong team, and many of the matches...
This resemblance between scholarship and classical rugged individualism is more than metaphorical. Institutionally Riesman has noted the resistance of universities to modern industrial psychology, to planners and adjusters and programmers, reformers who want to "integrate" the institution. The university still believes in the classical law of supply and demand, and...