Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, I have told myself to do something daring; but Cambridge seems to stifle me. For instance, four days ago, when I played checkers, I planned to use a decisive attack. I decided to get all my kings out of the back row, and move my men in sort of a phalanx. But I didn't know...
...necessity, any rejuvenation of geography must start on a small scale. Arthur A. Maass, chairman of the Faculty group, points out the difficulty of attracting any outstanding geographer to the University without providing him sufficient staff. The attempt should be made, however, to re-institute some sort of geographical instruction. Something would be far preferable to nothing...
...Yank at Oxford seemed a likely sort. No sooner had he arrived this fall than he began to fit himself into the black-gowned atmosphere, pedaling a bicycle to appointments with his tutors (philosophy, politics, economics), developing a taste for sherry and ale, acquiring a tea service for the social amenities. Best of all, he had a yen to play rugby. After all, he had been good at games back in the U.S., and he stood a lean, big-boned 6 ft. 1½ in., 205 Ibs. The rugby prospect: Rhodes Scholar and Infantry Lieut. Pete Dawkins...
...reply is that many so-called featherbedding practices are actually required for safety reasons by many states, that cutting down crews would add to railway accidents. (Actually, states with such rules have no better accident records than states without them.) The unions have come to regard featherbedding as a sort of fringe benefit, making up for the fact that railroad men have to sit by the phone for long hours without pay while waiting for a call to work, get no premium pay for nights, Sundays or holiday work, are not paid for away-from-home terminal expenses. Furthermore, despite...
Third Man on the Mountain (Buena Vista) may well become a children's classic of the screen, a sort of Tom Sawyer in the Alps. Based on James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky, the film describes the Alpine adventures of a teen-aged Swiss village boy (James MacArthur) who vows he will be the first climber to reach the top of the Matterhorn (known in the script as The Citadel) or die in the attempt as his father died before him. He joins the expedition of an English mountaineer (Michael Rennie) as a porter...