Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interesting if its particular problem concerns you, and is not especially difficult. Math, 11, which may be given next year by MacLane, is excellent, but not too good to take unless the student has had Math. 2. Math 12 is mostly taken by graduate students, and is definitely steep. Math. 13 is one of the stiffest courses in the department, and trains the student in really rigorous proof. The lecture material is generally well presented, but the problems are tough, and the grading severe. The course is recommended, but for senior year...
...Above this door is a small red sign which reads-STAG CLUB. Into this club every night go a wide variety of people bent on one desire,-a nightcap. Or in the case of some, a number of night caps. As you enter the Club you go up a steep set of stairs which branch off into two different rooms. Between these two rooms there is a small hallway where the ever present Jack Dorigan inspects the customers. Jack, who has never taken a drink, according to all reports, is the original member of the OGPU when it comes...
...cross the Atlantic and that Europe's wars are not ours. The air is full of suggestions as to what he can't do. Time was when he also couldn't get past the Maginot Line, or through the flooded fields of Holland, or up the steep mountain trails of Norway. Much is made of the fact that he has not crossed the English Channel. He was not there last September, but there are other Septembers. . . . AUBRY MILLER Alhambra, Calif...
...most spectacular lone wolf in 33 years of Wall Street history was Jesse Livermore, who plunged in & out of four Wall Street fortunes. Last week he decided the odds against another comeback were too steep, quit the market for good...
Caution walked the streets of Tokyo last week. The little race of Eastern adventurers suddenly swallowed their loud, brave words. Suddenly the people of Japan realized that the world is contagious with wars too big to fight successfully, depressions too steep to contemplate without vertigo, threats too insistent to be whistled down with bravado...