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...write on the eve of the Yale game, for a variety of reasons. If Harvard loses, it might spell the untimely end for Mr. Yoviensin, and if I am to remain chivalrous I should throw my punches before my adversary is down and out. If Harvard wins, then the alumni and overseers might think that the season is salvaged and keep the smiling and hoping Mr. Yoviesin...

Author: By N. ANDREW Pauley, | Title: SPORTS MAIL | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

...from and more vital than those who live elsewhere. The difference does not even have to be in their favor. The native Parisian, for instance, is born with an ineradicable hauteur that others define as rudeness, and the native New Yorker knows the meaning of avarice before he can spell the word. So strong is the trait that a century ago, Anthony Trollope waspishly noted that every New Yorker "worships the dollar and is down before his shrine from morning to night." To preserve the spirit of the place, he suggested, every man walking down Fifth Avenue should have affixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT MAKES A CITY GREAT? | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...them. in the Cornell game, is commemorated by a hand-written poster in his room. It reads: "Congratulations Crazy Legs. 101-yard pass interception return, October 18, 1969." "My girlfriend did that." he said. "I guess that she was so excited about it that she forgot how to spell congratulations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neil Hurley, Right Safety, Calls Signals Very Quietly | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...again an enormous painting of an ancestor which hung in the main hall. As you came up the main stairs and turned the corner and started around again, you were confronted with the giant relative (he may have been on horseback) which Mr. Taylor had told them about-spell-binding, looming, very...

Author: By Robin V. B. davis, | Title: Along the Border More Than Mere Memory | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

...debate to some degree how far to go to actually spell it out. You could say that same copy without the word "vaginal" for instance, but we felt it was time. This era today is one of being able to express oneself and we felt the women would much more...

Author: By Joanna Knobler, | Title: It's Not That You Have Bad Breath... | 10/18/1969 | See Source »

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