Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counterparts of these two specific problems will come under the surveillance of the Harvard-Radcliffe council committee. The first is the participation of girls in the activities of an organization when they are not actually members (such as is the case with Radcliffe CRIMSON correspondents). The other is the special dispensation sometimes granted to departmental clubs, allowing them girl members...
...natural competitor, Greasy has taken a crack at big-league baseball (as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds), coached college football from Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...
...jammed with frantic phone calls from children wanting verification of the news. Next day, the Chicago Sun-Times, which had had its share of calls, headlined: "Children: Santa Has NOT Been Shot." Penitent NBC prefaced its next day's News of the World with an interview, over a "special super-radio circuit," between Commentator Morgan Beatty in Houston and Santa Claus at the North Pole. Said Santa, reassuringly: "John L. Lewis just missed...
Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the age of 83. Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with...
...shall be required to register at the Dean's Office off the day of their last class meeting before the Christmas recess and on the first day after the recess. Such students are also required to attend their last and first classes before and after the Christmas recess. A special letter will be sent to each man on probation regarding this requirement...