Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tall and just beginning to gray, McNiff at thirty-five has spent more time in libraries than many a bent and wrinkled European scholar, and if he has not studied all the time, he has at least kept himself well occupied. Back in 1933, the year he graduated from Boston College with his A.B. in Philosophy, he began the battle of the books in Newton. Public Library. Things are usually uneventful for a small town librarian, but McNiff never gave them time to get that way. Not content to sit in a branch library and philosophize, he took courses...
...blue bus arrived from downtown and a lot of important-looking people got out. You couldn't miss tall, grey Robert Maynard Hutchins in a neat-fitting brown top coat and pearl grey Homburg. The important people mounted the platform and the photographers started taking pictures...
...Assembly passed Premier Schuman's strike-control bill (TIME, Dec. 8). At week's end nearly 1,000 had been arrested on sabotage charges. Minister of Interior Jules Moch, a tall, dark, Communist-hating Socialist, told the Assembly that he had authorized police and troops to fire on rioters if necessary. Moch also said that newly mobilized reservists would be ready by Wednesday of this week, and that, thereafter, "in every mine and in every factory where men want to work . . . they will be free...
...freshman basketball five seek their fourth win in as many starts. They face probably their toughest opponents of the season, according to Coach Berg. "Tufts is tall and fast. Their pivot, Don Goodwin, has been favorably compared to the Cross' star, George Kaffan, and his 6 ft., 5 in, may cause us some trouble," he said yesterday...
Kopp is still looking for a tall, aggresive center to replace Bill Prier, who graduated to the Varsity this season...