Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high spots of the year were more numerous and for the most part came in one of the most successful springs ever seen in Cambridge: the first three quarters of the football game against Princeton, the soccer team's rout of Yale, the basketball team's surprising successes, the destruction of the Ivy League by the hockey team, the squash team's near miss against Yale, and the consistent wins of the track team. The spring saw one success after another by the Eastern championship baseball and tennis teams, Joel Landau's astounding victories in leading the track team...
...varsity hockey team must be termed as the year's most puzzling squad. By all rights, this should have been the finest sextet seen at Harvard in a long time. The entire 1956-57 team, which went to the NCAA finals in Colorado, was back with the exception of the goalie, Jim Bailey. Harry Pratt proved himself an able replacement for Bailey as the season progressed and Bruce Gillie and Mike Graney came up from last year's freshman team to give added depth. But while the sextet won the Ivy League and eventually went to Minneapolis...
Summoned into Hong Kong's magistracy court, Wat protested that he had never seen or heard of the woman, Chan Kam, 53, who was suing him for maintenance and claiming they had been married for 26 years. The woman admitted that she had never before laid eyes on Wat. But Wat's sister-in-law, Yip Wan-tai, testified that before Wat's mother died in 1932, the mother had instructed her to marry Wat to Chan, then 28. The ceremony was duly carried out: the bride wore red, and Wat was represented, said...
...much deeper in the search for facts than anyone would imagine is possible." First areas for the search: the insides of small gasoline and electric motors, which the young scholars can now take apart and explain. The boys ask hard questions, e.g., why do salt and sugar crystals, seen under a borrowed microscope, look different? In the older boys' science class, taught for $5 an hour by Junior High Science Teacher Arthur Olson, the students have gone far beyond their age group in studying the solar system, will next investigate magnetism...
...regards it as but one of many expressions available to his characters. While the whole of his story, "The Sign of the Mermaid," focusses on a well-staged orgy (similar to Kozol's in featuring a middle-aged woman's lust for a youthful male), still the orgy is seen in a perspective this side of madness...