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...seniors can hardly be blamed if they gaze for the last time upon familiar surroundings with a brimming heart. Some of them are simply grifters who are sorry to see the end of a 10 to 2 workday. Some are intense individuals who strove joyfully for four years in a fascinating welter of ideas and knowledge. Most are probably a mixture of both types. All, it is safe to say, are a little touched by stage fright and resignation. The College is behind them. The world is closing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement, 1949 | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

Poet Walter Savage Landor (who strove with none, for none was worth his strife) was shocked almost to speechlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Terror | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Poor baserunning by the Terriers contributed heavily to their defeat, as they strove repeatedly and vainly to stretch singles into doubles and doubles into triples. One man was thrown out stealing home with the bases loaded and one out, and two doubles in one inning failed to produce a run for the BU freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Baseball Team, Outhit 13-6, Beats Terriers, 4-2 | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

Finally the owl came out into view--only to fly away to a less public roost. For the next half hour, Miss Holmes amused a crowd of freshmen and assorted passersby as she strove to get within range of the wily bird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Owl Refuses to Pose for 'Life' Deserts Pine Tree | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

...bustling seventh-floor newsroom of the New York Daily News, a shirt-sleeved copyreader, pale-faced under the fluorescent lights, strove for a headline that would tell a crime story. When he had one that suited him, he flipped it over to the man in the "slot" of the horseshoe-shaped copy desk. It read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Headline Hunters | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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