Word: sloppyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McNulty, himself an ex-altar boy (at St. Mary's, Lawrence, Mass.) fell into no better company than his own. He was a man much loved by newspapermen, horse-players, bartenders, dogs, writers, children and other odd characters who knew him. He had the weaknesses of his subject matter...
With prospects for a winning season having increased with wins last week over Williams and Wesleyan, it seems a shame that the varsity squad must play on an unkempt, windswept, sloppy hardpan like the Business School field. Through lacking the tradition which shrouds college football, college soccer, played under decent...
Some dean in charge of these matters allowed as how the "untidyness" of Yalies had elicited a "great deal of criticism" from visitors, and went on to explain that "not conformity, but neatness" was the aim of the edict. That went without saying, and what the dean must have meant...
* Imbecile † Sloppy ** Sallow †† Prematurely aged * The firm eventually went into receivership. Today's Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Nestle-Le Mur Co.), though named for her, is a different business, founded in 1907.
Almost a decade later, Radcliffe students are still strongly opposed to the idea of joint exams which would be closely proctored and which would necessitate wearing skirts rather than sloppy blue jeans, uncombed hair and make-up-less faces.