Word: staleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beaver Country Day School was founded when John Dewey's ideas on progressive education were rearing their bumptious little heads. "Education generally was a pretty stale dish," recalls its headmaster. "Green mold is not limited to penicillin. Many a school has flourished in mold and called it tradition...
...best defensemen in the league, led the Bruins to three championships in three years. A little rusty, the "Kitchener Kids" (they grew up in Kitchener, Ont.) have not really cut loose so far. Partly responsible is Manager Art Ross, who boasts that he has never had a man go stale on him in 20 years, and now insists on easing his kids back into action...
...with the eager German wom en, the fresh-faced German young, bred forgetfulness of Belsen and Buchenwald and Oswieczim. The bodies were buried; the memory was all but buried. Even at the trial of Belsen's "beast," Josef Kr#228;mer and his staff, the evoked horror was stale...
Harvard beat Yale and Brown on Soldiers Field Saturday, according to the if-men, when Coach Floyd. Stale's boys yielded only five runs to a strong Holy Cross nine and scored one themselves. Tivnan, hurler for the Crusaders, showed plenty of stuff, allowing only three scratch in field hits and whiffing four on strikes. The Holy Cross picket line had to make only three put-outs, testifying to Tivana's superior talent, and the infield handled the other outs...
Poll & Payroll. Then, fairly sniffing the stale air of speakeasies and Minsky burlesque shows, and cocking an ear for the tugboat whistles that used to herald a civic reception for a Channel swimmer or a Uruguayan pingpong champ, the News set out to bring Jimmy back. It hired teams of canvassers (at $10 a day apiece) to poll the city, promising its readers that the poll "will be conducted scientifically and impartially." Actually, no Ja vote in Hitler's Reich ever packed a more loaded question than the one the News launched its poll with: "If not Walker...