Word: southeastern
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...American's image of himself," says Professor Will Herberg of Drew University, "is still the Mayflower, John Smith, Davy Crockett, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln . . . and this is true whether the American in question is a descendant of the Pilgrims or the grandson of an immigrant from southeastern Europe." In politics, write Harvard Professors Edward Banfield and James Wilson, "the perfect candidate, then, is of Jewish, Polish, Italian or Irish extraction and has the speech, dress, manner and the public virtues-honesty, impartiality, and devotion to the public interest-of the upper-class Anglo-Saxon...
Looking ahead to next Saturday's important match with C.C.N.Y., Marion plans to gradually work his first team into competition. "I thought my sophomores could get some experience against Holy Cross" he said. "I'll use a mixture of my first and second team against Southeastern Mass. Tech. [this] Saturday and send my full first team to M.I.T. next Wednesday...
Durrell made side trips to Malaysia and New Zealand, but the dramatic high point of the book is his meticulously observed birth of a kangaroo in southeastern Australia: it emerges as a pinkish, gleaming blob no longer than the first joint of a man's little finger, and is deposited on the mother's tail. Practically an embryo, the baby must drag itself blindly up through the fur on its mother's stomach and crawl into the marsupial pouch. Throughout, the mother kangaroo remains indifferent to the baby's struggles. This, says Durrell, is "the equivalent...
...they all played their college foot ball in the Southeastern Conference -the roughest, toughest, best college conference in football. The S.E.C. has ten regular members plus Georgia Tech, which technically classifies as an inde pendent, though it plays about half its games against conference schools. Of those eleven teams, five ranked last week among the top 13 colleges: Alabama (No. 4), Georgia Tech (5), Florida (7), Tennessee (10) and Georgia...
...evidence to the contrary. Big Ten superiority passed from the realm of fact to that of fancy long before the 1966 season. If you will use the same criterion by which Midwestern football came to be regarded as superior (national rankings, intersectional game victories), you will find that the Southeastern Conference has earned the distinction of being America's toughest league...