Word: sawyerism
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...fared no better, says Psychologist Charles. There was Washington Irving's gawky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, "with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that [his head] looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck . . ." Tom Sawyer's bewigged schoolmaster was fussy, pedantic, strict ("his rod and his ferule were seldom idle") and frustrated ("The darling of his desires was to be a doctor, but poverty had decreed that he should be nothing higher than a village schoolmaster"). Wolfe's idea of a schoolmaster, also described in Look Homeward, Angel...
VARSITY WRESTLING--Minor H--Alfred R. Abboud '51, Robert Claflin '50, Thomas P. Connors '51, Wilbur M. Davis '50, Charles C. Keith, Jr. '51, Joel A. Kozol '51, Alan F. Sawyer, Jr. '52, David N. Shapire '51, David L. Smith '51, and Maurice H. Richardson, Jr. '52, Manager...
After Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, 63, had a gall bladder and appendix operation in Cincinnati, his surgeon, Dr. Reed Shank, was startled by a long-distance call from Washington. Harry Truman was on the line saying: "He's a personal friend of mine and I wanted to hear directly from you how he's doing." Dr. Shank told the President that the patient's condition was "very good...
...Crimson goes along with the same lineup that was badly beaten at Princeton (which also beat Yale) last week. It is still crippled by the absence of Al Sawyer, 145, who broke his leg in an automobile accident the week of the Princeton match. This means that Bob Abboud, who ordinarily would compete at 128, must stay up at 145 and that the comparatively inexperienced Dave Shapire must wrestle the Eli captain...
Smith wrestled Harvard's best individual match. Like most of the other Harvards, he came up against a good- experienced man. The score might have been closer had Al Sawyer been able to wrestle...