Word: stouter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's freedom today from the pestilence that still possesses Princeton should in no wise be interpreted as evidence for the stouter moral fiber of her undergraduate body compared to that encamped around Nassau Hall. It was only the House system which redeemed her--and a philosophy of education which viewed the student social structure as a primary concern and area of legitimate jurisdiction for a great university and which sought to rebuild that structure on a principle which was the inverse of selectivity: the principle of distribution within the House, geographical, academic, economic, and intellectual, with diversity of race...
...stanza from Shelley's To a Skylark or cannot explain the meaning of the Feast of Lupercal (a Roman fertility rite*), but he walks in fear of Father Alphonsus McSwiney, Dean of Discipline, a clerical careerist and bully whose belief it is that "no boy [is] stouter than a good cane" and that a man is, after all, only a layman. Dev knows less about fertility rites than the boys. At 37, he has never made love to a woman ("It was the education in Ireland, dammit, he had said it many a time ... it was a matter...
...campaign" that Nixon conducts. The fairdealing New York Post editorialized: "One might almost say this is a national emergency." And Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr, the nation's windiest master of the last word, proclaimed: "Unless the President's got a stronger back and a stouter heart than I think he has, that load, i.e., Nixon, will get awful heavy before November...
...quite grey and stylishly stouter than she was during her twelve years as the nation's First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt confided that her greatest pleasure now comes from "work . . . and [having] no people dependent on me to take my time." She lives alone in an apartment on Manhattan's East 62nd Street, celebrated her birthday at Hyde Park with all of her children present except Elliott (expected later). For exercise she no longer rides horseback through the Putnam County woods, but often strolls over the countryside with her two Scotties, one a grandson of F.D.R.'s famed...
...paid, and in the event of his capture, would not enjoy the protection afforded to regular soldiers. His gallantry, devotion to his chosen duty, and obedience have been exemplary. Those who fought at his side during his six months' service with us could not wish for a stouter comrade...