Word: styx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austere Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, a strenuous foe of physical exercise (he abolished intercollegiate football at the University of Chicago nine years ago), crammed his 6 ft. 3 in. into an undersized football uniform for You're in the Styx, Professor, the annual faculty show. Hutchins struck a blow for higher education by warbling, in an uncertain baritone, The Rose Bowl Blues...
Mark Ethridge of Louisville and representatives from eleven nations arrived in Greece. They were just another U.N. committee charged with compiling a complicated report. Nobody expected to hear from them until the Styx froze over.* But almost before they had time to unzip their briefcases, they were neck-deep in an impassioned Greek controversy, stood accused of meddling in Greece's domestic affairs, and had snatched five Greek Leftists (including a 15-year-old orphan named Odysseus Doukas) away from a firing squad...
After the Soviets occupied the lower half of the Danube last year, boats that went downstream might as well have sailed down the Styx. They never came back. The long (since 1856) Danubian tradition of free traffic, one of the few economic arrangements ever worked out in barrier-ridden Europe, was broken. Now the U.S. had most of the Danube fleet in its control. Said a high U.S. official: "We have the boats and they [the Russians] have the river." Washington would not free one until Moscow freed the other...
...Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded him out. He set a whole generation's style of tame, facile humor, in which the cheerful shades of the great pseudophilosophized and gagged politely (sample: Wellington pulls a campstool from under Napoleon). His House Boat on the Styx became a best-seller and was credited with having relieved the U.S. reading public of its fear of hell...
...Nutcracker Suite. 8:30 Musical Quiz Show, with Bill Ernst '41, Newbold Landon '42, Ben Hazard '42, and Lyman Snow '42. 9:00 Nine O'Clock Jump. 9:30 A Case for Non-Intervention: Jordan M. Whitelaw '42. 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall": Gluck: Alcest Overture and "Divinites du Styx." Wagner: Tanuhauser, "Dick Teure Balle." Brahma: Symphony No. 4. 10:45 News...