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...methods, however, were unique. He psychoanalyzed Chicago politics by the "word association" test. Specimen Chicagoans, from steer-stabbers to brokers, were told to blurt out their immediate reactions to the examiner's key words. "Alderman" suggested the professor. "Grafter," quickly replied one citizen. Another said "crook." Another said "big cheese," another, "bay window." "City hall," posed the professor. "Politics . . . graft . . . corruption," came the spontaneous reactions...
...training camp, Señor Victorio Maria Campolo, towering Argentine heavyweight fighter (TIME, June 24) tried desperately, ineffectually, to scowl, to glower, to crook his smile into a sneer, jibing onlookers, unconvinced of his ferocity, were told: "You should see him bulldog, skin and dress a steer for barbecue in nine minutes...
...King's rowboats. From their sterns hung large white standards bearing the crown and royal cipher. At their prows were small red and white "swan flags." Two Swanherds in scarlet coats rowed each boat. At the tiller of each sat a Swanmaster. whose duty it was to steer and watch for swans. Vintners' and Dyers' skiffs carried the banners of their guilds at the stern and other swan flags (red for the Vintners, blue for the Dyers) at their prow. Supervising the entire Swan-upping was Keeper of the King's Swans, F. T. Turk whose...
...Wadsworth '30 was chosen to steer the first University shell in the opening race with M. I. T. on Saturday, at a meeting of the first crew in the Newell Boathouse yesterday afternoon. The selection is temporary and will be in effect only for the Tech race, since the choice is being deferred until a later date. E. L. Belisle '31 will cox the Jayvee eight...
Freedom for the undergraduate press can not be over emphasized. But the boundary between freedom and license is not to be forgotten. To steer a proper course between these two points is the responsibility of student editors. When, as in the recent case of the alleged "nasty humor" in the Back Bay issue of the M. I. T. Voo Doo, the heads of publications fall to carry out this essential part of their program, there arises the delicate question of censorship from the outside...