Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aware of the purely sexual problems involved. Recently several institutions instituted subjects dealing with the sociological elements of marriage; all have proved popular, even at Vassar. Harvard now offers an excellent study of large and small familistic relations, Sociology 13, but this is perhaps too far on the institutional side for all but a few grinds. The view should be personalized...
...which they were rather crudely muscled by the French in 1881-they have a juster claim to a foothold on the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, the 15-mile-wide channel between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden now dominated by French Somaliland on one side and British Aden on the other (see map). Those who control Bab-el-Mandeb control the southeastern vestibule to the Mediterranean...
Ever since 1869, when 50 long-trousered, bewhiskered Princeton and Rutgers students kicked a "bag of wind" up & down a 360-yd. field to see which side could kick it between the goal posts six times, the U.S. game of football has undergone almost as many changes as women's hats. Last week when the American Football Coaches Association met in Chicago for their annual rule-tinkering, they wrote an extraordinary page into the annals of the sport. The world might be going politically and economically arsy-versy, but the coaches failed to recommend a single major football change...
Admirers of the late Thome Smith, from whose books Topper and its sequel were derived, will doubtless be enchanted by the gaiety and humor of these proceedings. Less prejudiced cinemaddicts may feel that the comic possibilities of its trick photography are less inexhaustible than its producers supposed. Once the side-splitting spectacle of doors opening without apparent human aid has lost its novelty, the picture's only surprises are occasional droll antics by Actors Young and Burke, and a few scraps of bright dialogue. Best line: Mrs. Topper's comment on Gallic manners: "Too bad the people...
...point a box used to store sand was overturned, and a free-for-all sand fight started." Now, in their immaturity, these Elis were striking at the very root of two hallowed institutions: the WPA sand pile project and the old New Haven custom of parking on the side-walk...