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Word: squirish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stiff-backed headmaster of the Connecticut boys' school. Harvardman Batchelder helped plan the school which five childless members of Connecticut's Loomis family (merchants, lawyers, teachers, divines) decided to found so "that some good may come to posterity through the harvest ... of our lives." As the squirish "Mr. B.", he spent 35 years of his life turning Loomis into one of the top U.S. prep schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...been born at St. Mark's, raised at St. Mark's, educated at St. Mark's, and after four years at Princeton and one at Yale, had returned to St. Mark's as a teacher. He was William Wyatt Barber Jr., a squirish, 39-year-old gentleman with a wife named Peg and a dog named Thor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pedigrees & Principles | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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