Word: sanctums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This dictum, pronouned after practice, had to be modified on the appearance in the medical sanctum of assistant coach Eddie Davis with a wounded second finger on his right hand. Davis, a giant tackle on the 1946 team and a present Business School student, revealed that the injured digit had been "caught in a mousetrap play...
Meanwhile, their own papers lay unnoticed in a corner of the Daily Directorate's sanctum and were finally delivered so late that many sad-eyed Big Green students went to the game still believing the hoax...
...minimum on weekends, do not rest lightly on undergraduate stomachs. Most noticeable of all is the impression inevitably generated by the atmosphere that to tell a funny story, hold a fork incorrectly, or worst of all, hold hands under the table, would be distinctly out of place in this sanctum of respectability...
...news and the Colonel's slants on the news. The rest of the afternoon the Colonel reads his mail, takes tea & toast, researches his weekly radiorations on forgotten U.S. heroes, sends off memos (signed "R.R. McC.") down his chain of command, and summons department heads to the sanctum. They have learned that it is well to lay a problem crisply on the line, get his decision, which is almost invariably prompt, and get out fast...
Archeologist Healey was led up a mysterious trail to a place called Bonampak, where eleven ancient temples lay hidden in the jungle. The biggest was called "El Tigre" (the mountain lion). When Healey entered its inner sanctum, a live mountain lion bounded out. This pleased the Lacandones; the temple's faithful guardian...