Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champion of the Yard circuit will meet the house League leader in a post-season tilt. The new league will officially get under way at 3 o'clock this afternoon as the Holworthy Vets meet the Straus Sad Sacks, and the Stoughton Raiders share the floor with the Thayer Hall Aesthetes...
...authority on Chinese, Japanese and Indian manuscripts. As a schoolboy prodigy, "in one minute Kien had memorized ∏ to 65 decimal places." As a grown-up scholar, he lives in solitude, utterly shut off from the world by the tomes of his magnificent library, wholly dedicated to pedantry. One sad day, this sexless, infantile genius decides to marry his housekeeper, because she is the only person he can trust to dust his books...
...paper, it would hardly suggest to a normal mind that its transformation into movie form could do anything but heighten to the point of nausea its sentimental hokum and turn-of-the-century American idealism. On the screen, however, it becomes as entertaining, as moving, as funny and sad--in short, as fine a picture as ever came out of Hollywood...
...President was informed by letter that he had been chosen an honorary editor of the Harvard Crimson, campus newspaper. When the Crimson got a formal acknowledgement from the White House, it had to respond with some sad news: somebody had just been hoaxing the President-Crimson rules forbade honorary editors...
...Last Drop. At first Dr. ZoBell did not think much of his find, but oilmen heard about it and jumped at it eagerly. Their interest was based on a sad and simple fact: no known extraction process gets all the oil out of an oilfield. Much of it stays below ground, sticking to rock particles. But if the bacterial process works, this oil can be got at, and exhausted oil pools will yield a valuable "second crop...