Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude toward the Yale game is concerned, this is a typical Harvard grid season. All will be forgiven and forgotten, all except the 34-6 Princeton trouncing, if the Elis are taken into camp: A whole lot of accounts can be gloriously settled by defeating Clint Frank and his cohorts this Saturday, and every single person connected with the Varsity squad, from Dick Harlow to the Freshman managerial candidates, are keenly aware of every one. To list just a few: Harlow hasn't seen a Yale victory since his arrival in Cambridge, there hasn't been a Yale victory since...
...Aggression Pact lately signed by Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq "is a further contribution to world tranquillity," proudly declared the Father of the Turks. "The collaboration of Turkey is assured in any initiative toward pacification of the world, and particularly toward reinstatement of good relations between all Mediterranean countries...
...Musician Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...
...behind'' the times, Oxonians still have the outlook toward sex of the post-War period, when ''intercourse was fashionable" and not taken seriously. Briant estimates 20% of undergraduettes (Oxonian for coeds) and 30% of undergraduates have sex experiences at the university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer...
...water he got 100 cantaloupes, declared this to be 20 times the yield expected from soil. Pushing against the roof of his greenhouse, with its massive roots in water, is an 18-ft. banana plant, now only eleven months old. Dr. Gericke's current researches are directed toward controlling the colors and mineral contents of vegetables by varying the kinds and quantity of salts in the solution. He has grown tomatoes with double the normal content of beneficial minerals. In his ice box on the second floor of the university's Life Science Building are jars of tomato...