Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockne over the heads of today's massive linemen. And how would Rockne, at 5 ft. 8 in. and weighing 145 Ibs., compare with a giant like Jim Seymour? But in college football today, rangy, strong-armed passers like Hanratty and rawboned, speedy receivers like Seymour are the rule rather than the exception. Practically every team in the U.S. boasts somebody who can throw "the bomb" and somebody who can catch it. Among the best...
...populace, and even an elementary form of baseball emerged. The cult of courtly love crossed the Pyrenees, and was adopted by Moorish lords, who in song and painting boasted of their prowess, both as warriors and lovers. Mudéjar art, produced by Moslems living under Christian rule, flourished. So did medicine and many of Spain's great universities date from this fruitful period. When in 1492, the year Columbus discovered the New World, the last Moors, as well as the Jews, were finally driven from Spain, they left behind as their legacy a new nation cross-fertilized...
...Wechsberg notes, he relies on instinct. One day in 1932, Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger tried to interest the Lehman Brothers in a complicated financial deal. Kreuger talked and talked about his grandiose schemes, while Philip Lehman made a few notes. Then Lehman turned him down: "I have a rule, Mr. Kreuger. If I cannot understand something by reading my notes on the subject, I won't buy it. You are too complex for me, Mr. Kreuger." A few months later, as his swindles collapsed around him, Kreuger shot himself...
Year after year, the Radcliffe Redbook informs Cliffies that "skirts and dresses must be worn to classes." But inquiries yesterday showed that no one knows who made the rule originally, why it was made, or how it is supposed to be enforced...
Although many girls wear pants despite the no-slacks restriction, the rule has been a part of Radcliffe heritage as long as anyone in the Dean's office can remember, and no one feels the need to change...