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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English definitions: You're out of it You are a social dud You've had it You're drunk You've gotton the green banana Your data called up and broke the data Three-dollar bills People who are "out of it" Sack rat A person who likes to sleep Tunk An all-male jolly-up To bomb To study Smooth up Put on decent-looking clothes The 'Case Syracuse, N.Y. site of a bloody and traditional football game Plush courses Gut courses Ace Good fraternity prospect

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colgate-English Glossary | 10/18/1952 | See Source »

Electioneering has upset their schedules, but in normal life both men work about ten hours a day and try to make sure that they get enough sleep. Eisenhower aims at the traditional eight hours, often has to be content with six or seven. Stevenson makes a point of being in bed by midnight, up by 7:30. The general does not take regular vacations; the governor takes short ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Next President's Health | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

Kerr played the title role in "Billy Budd" at the Brattle last year, and also starred in "A Sleep of Prisoners." Wager had top billing in the Brattle's production of "The idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Veterans Open Soon In New Broadway Production | 10/7/1952 | See Source »

...room last week at a hospital run by the Blue Sisters in Rome, George Santayana died in his sleep. He was 88, and had lived to become one of the great names of the century. His last illness was brief. Though he had lived among the nuns for eleven years, with characteristic ambiguity Santayana never officially returned to the Roman Catholic Church in which he was baptized; he did not receive the Sacraments on his deathbed. His body was taken to a chapel in Rome's Catholic Verano Cemetery, and left there without ceremony until it is decided where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: GEORGE SANTAYANA: 1863-1952 | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...anything from a prizefight to a prime rib, but this time they established a record even for London: they queued up to start a queue. Carrying blankets and food, the first of them began lining up outside the Royal Festival Hall 60 hours in advance. They were allowed to sleep overnight in a corridor. Then the real queue began in front of the box office. In such fashion last week, London music lovers awaited the first English appearance since 1939 of Arturo Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanini Takes London | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

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