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What was all this hoarse shouting and furious trampling about? There was little or no reliable sign of another East German uprising like that of last June, tut the Soviet zone population was still restless and bitterly resentful, judging by the 16,600 refugees who slipped out under the Iron Curtain in October...
...recondite to accomplished Scrabblers. Gnus are African antelopes, nix is accepted dictionary slang for "nothing" or "I don't allow," a zax is a sharp-pointed tool used in roofing, tut is a mild chiding exclamation...
RECREATION Gnus Nix ZaxTut In the dusk of many summer evenings, for the quiet time when television cloys and the children scuttle in chase of the Good Humor man, an ever-growing slice of the U.S. public has found a new diversion. Its name: Scrabble. Its components: a board with 225 squares, 100 small wooden counters bearing letters of the alphabet, two to four players, ability to spell (or a handy dictionary) and a few ounces of competitive spirit...
...Tut-Tut-Tut . . ." After two years of Oberlin, World War I took Thornton into a coast-defense unit ("I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal"). But by that time he was a Yaleman after all. Thornton wrote for the Lit, joined the Elizabethan Club, quoted Goethe with Sophomore Robert Hutchins. Thornton's room became a salon, where he would read his plays aloud or hold forth on the gloomy beauties of George Gissing. Professor William Lyon Phelps exclaimed: "I believe he is a genius." Mr. Wilder demurred: "Oh, tut-tut-tut, Billy...
When the bright glare of publicity focused on the inequities of applying Lamont's 9 p.m. check-out time to commuters, library officials uttered a quiet tut-tut, but that was all. As early as October, the Student Council presented them with a solution: allow commuters to take out one of every five conies of reserved books at five o'clock, these books being marked specifically for non-residents. But after two months, both the books and the ratio plan are still shelved...