Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faculty is salving their various bumps and bruises-both physical and mental-after that annual Senior-Faculty softball tussle. Mr. Bingham reports he has cross-classified the results and finds the Seniors won by three standard deviations and six medians-which just goes to show you how confusing such as this can be. R. S. Merriam didn't seem to meet with any universal approval as an umpire,-although he figured out the "break-even" point of every play. Out in the field Messrs. Livesey and Barloon (despite his besmirched trousers) played stellar games notwithstanding obvious myopia...
When U.S. commanders in Britain, addressing soldiers, are so brilliantly devoid of tact that they make discomforting headlines, British officialdom must pay attention. Last week the British censor's office in London asked British newspaper editors and foreign correspondents not to report speeches by Allied "senior officers" to troops henceforth without an okay from the censor...
This is Charles Wertenbaker who, as Senior Editor of TIME, was for many months in charge of all TIME'S news-reporting on the war and foreign news. No armchair editor, he spent four months at the front in Tunisia, followed our armies to Gafsa, Maknassy, El Guettar and almost to Mateur. He will be top man on the actual invasion team...
Among the judges will be Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, and Wallace E. Davies, teaching fellow in History and Senior Tutor of Dunster House...
Have you noticed the new anchors the senior midshipmen are wearing on their collars? One salty midshipman when asked why he wasn't wearing the new device, answered, "It'd make me look too much like an ensign!" Take it as you will...