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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When they do put up with their world, the college students do so mostly to put it down, cheering on in traditional collegiate fashion the impudent and the impertinent. Sardonic Singer Tom Lehrer remains a remarkably long-lived favorite, with five current records to skip study by. A recent Lehrer tune: "Doin' the Vatican rag/ Get in line in that processional/ Step into that small confessional/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." Another favorite is urbane, eccentric Woody Allen, who is currently flipping the filmniks by writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICAN HUMOR: Hardly a Laughing Matter | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Phillipian captain Chris Gurry is a strong aggressive defenseman, who has starred against college freshmen for four years at Andover. The first line, one of the best sub-college-varsity units any-where, is composed of All-Prep Skip Freeman, and Dick Delaney and Jack Turco, who were All-State selections last year for Walpole and Melrose High respectively...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Freshman Sextet to Meet Unbeaten Andover Squad | 2/16/1966 | See Source »

...American Indian Project volunteers everywhere, the summer is one of small achievements -- of solving a 10-year-old's "identity crisis," making a psychopath cry, teaching a withdrawn six-year old girl to swim, telling a four-year-old how to skip stones. The larger social problems evade solution...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: PBH Volunteers Strive to Understand Problems, Fears of American Indians | 2/7/1966 | See Source »

Since the initial approval of the study, a few of the students have offered Ebert a proposal that would enable them to skip the unit tests in the course, taking an over-all comprehensive exam at the end of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ebert Approves Student Proposal For Independent Medical Studies | 1/6/1966 | See Source »

...looming crisis. The newspapers still pay more attention to Britain's problems in Rhodesia than to India's food problem. Though he called for the nation to emulate him, Prime Minister Shastri is about the only Indian who dug up his lawn for a garden, and his skip-a-meal-a-week plan is also largely ignored. Snaps one young Indian editor, who refuses to skimp on meals: "Why should I suffer for the folly of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Folly of Others | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

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