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Word: stillness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the College more or less eliminated its mid-term grades a year ago last April, it gave individual instructors the privilege of still springing hour exams on their classes. Most of the instructors used this privilege; hour exams can be a very useful yardstick for both the student and his teacher, sizing up the student's progress well before he reaches the all-or-nothing final examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bare Bluebooks | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard Still Hits Hard...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard in relation to its three biggest rivals. In the first place, the sons of the old grads aren't staffing Crimson football teams any more. On this year's squad seven men on the first three teams are prep school graduates, although 40 percent of the college is still composed of private school students...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...Still, big name opponents that beat us badly draw more people than little schools which we can beat. So the people who sign the checks continue to want big name opponents...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...performed by the non-professional musician are quite apt to be unsatisfactory to the listener. Granting the validity of this problem, it is more to the credit of Mr. Holmes and his Orchestra that they were able to select a program which would please the audience while still falling within the technical limitations of the players...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

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