Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the pledges stick, all strikers were placed on probation for the rest of the year, seniors were barred from extracurricular activities. Although Principal Wood knew that the roots of trouble were still there, Fremont breathed somewhat easier...
Never was art more "modern." Some of the pictures were mere dabs, streaks and splashes of color; others showed impossible animals and people with grinning Balloon heads on stick bodies wobbling up out of knee-high skyscrapers. There were "abstractions" made of pasted scraps and bits of string; portraits of black-mustached papas; princesses sitting between curtains of golden hair; fish flying over ocean liners; a pink & purple Christmas tree, and multicolored cowboys lassoing long-horned swirls of mud. Yet few visitors to the show in Manhattan's Museum of Natural History last week indignantly asserted that their kids...
...Carnival Club, at $11,000 a week.) Now, Milt says, he is "through with the saloons." "For the first 26 weeks of the radio show," he explains, licking up a fresh eight-inch cigar, "I canceled out everything. The Philip Morris people been great, GREAT! They're gonna stick with me until the show builds. This time I gotta make it. I'm sincere about this. Why, I turned down $25,000 a week at the Roxy to work on the show, and it's only paying me a measly three, four thousand...
...example of one bud which nearly didn't blossom, he lists James Reed '29. One bright afternoon in the autumn of 1928 Jaakko saw what looked to him like a wonderful distance prespect loping down past the Stadium, waving, of all things, a lacrosse stick. This, of course, was a mistake and it didn't take the Crimson track coach long to convince the erstwhile stickman that his destiny was track not lacrosse. Reed eventually captured the IC4A cross country title and in winning the IC4A outdoor two-mile established a new Harvard record of 9 minutes 22 seconds...
...dime and one subway stop away from the Yard, the 13-year-old Cambridge Police Station is as sensitive to Veritas vibrations as University Hall itself. Situated within whistle-distance of Central Square, the triangular four-story building is home base for a force that has worked hand and stick with the University Police since 1846 maintaining a Widener-like order throughout the College. With a reputation for knowing the student better than does his dean, the 214-man force keeps its headquarters informed on everything from Mt. Auburn pinball machines to Boylston Street bookstalls, and not even the Radcliffe...