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Word: theys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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You cannot take a man without basic football instinct and teach him to block like a man with good football instinct. Valpey and his staff worked on blocking every day of the season. They did not neglect this fundamental.

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

The 18-year-old freshman apparently pulled the trigger accidentally while adjusting his rifle strap, police said last night. According to conflicting reports of eyewitnesses, Zilahy picked up the rifle, a .22 calibre Winchester, and found the leather sling too tight. In either a sitting or kneeling position, he attempted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Dies of Wound In Target Practice Mishap | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Morton, however, is very successful in his defense of the contemplative vocation and in his scorn for the modern Godless civilization. "The Quickening of St. John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Poetry Mirrors A Man's Belief | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

There is nothing inherently valuable in the lecture system. It has always been excused as the only way of bringing the professor in contact with a large number of students. No one could possibly defend it as the best educational method for groups small enough to be organized as conferences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seats of Learning | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Rows of seats are preferred over a conference table becauses they accommodate large classes. But the practice of moulding educational techniques to the capacity of available class rooms is hardly worthy of America's wealthiest University. Professors who find undergraduates incapable of benefitting from the conference method fail to understand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seats of Learning | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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