Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scrimmages with the Varsity every day this week have not given the undefeated Yardlings a chance to go stale while their forward line with Register, Spivak, Wallace, and Chen as standouts has given the Varsity defensemen many troublesome moments. HARVARD BROWN Harshman g. Evans Forster rfb. Campbell Merck lfb. Groth Mavor rhb. Classon Ogden chb. Schaller Purluton lhb. Schopf Chun orf. Massare Lazarue irf. Bradley Potter cf. Antone Morse ilf. Ross Corrigan olf. Bellows
...went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale...
...Coming of Catastrophe. O'Neill's idyllic quiet, which was ultimately to be destroyed by illness, was first invaded by something more sinister. By 1938 the sickening geologic slipping and faulting of world affairs had so profoundly disturbed him that he had gone stale on his cycle. By 1939 he turned, for relief, to The Iceman Cometh. By 1940, his whole scheme of work began to fall apart. His financial and personal relationships were untouched; his leisure for work was still unlimited. But some subtle, insidious things (and some brutally simple ones) destroyed the apparent perfection...
...Sacks, in company with Jed Prouty and Robert Chisholm, turn in top character jobs all good for the expectable number of laughs. "Don't Be a Woman if You Can" is first-rate patter and "There's No Holding Me" likeable ballad. But there's no getting around something stale--you've heard it before, you've seen it before, and it isn't good enough this time to make you think you haven...
...moved from the Paris Peace Conference, its stale yammering, its endless skirmishes around the periphery of political war, into Germany. Byrnes's journey to Stuttgart was a move into the heartland. Germany, in the end, would be the great strategic battlefield. There the U.S. now stood, inviting Germans to stand on Western democracy's side...