Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Hal Ulen nor Tiger coach Howie Stepp will pay much about the contest. Both need a win tonight, as upper-bracket standing in the Eastern Intercollegiate League is at stake. Princeton will have the benefit of being at home in its spanking new Dillon pool--the most ultra-modern dixiecup in the east. The Crimson, on the other hand, has a somewhat better record this season and possibly the edge in material...
...currently being compared by blurb artists to the novels of Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray. He has cooked so many people into his plot (over 100 in all) that he has had to include an explanatory list of them. His dialogues range from the chirpings of Armorel's ultra-refined relations ("Cousin Freddie, don't you think it's awful for Mums, seeing the last little chick fluttering away from the nest?") to the Anglo-Genoese babblings of Gian's momma ("Ayee! Serris my Gian . . . allo, mi' picciolo!"). But Elephant and Castle is still a dreary...
...stop them. It was a great day for the kids on the platform and for the handful down front listening: they were beginning a worldwide children's crusade, and they had nothing to lose but their chains. Their leader: bachelor Headmaster Robert Copping of Britain's ultra-progressive Horsley Hall...
...world press. In 1939, when Russia wanted to make a deal with Nazi Germany, the Soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi Germany, the soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi campaign to a conciliatory position, and the subsequent negotiations were all highly secret and ultra-diplomatic. The Russians are adept at international poker. They don't negotiate through the newspapers...
...Anita 15 years ago, Strub sent aides to scout the eastern tracks and report in detail what was wrong with them. The findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of it) and an ultra-roomy grandstand. His attendants, ushers and gatemen were drilled in courtesy. Strub even handed out kindly advice to the uninitiated bettor, posted such warnings as: "Bet only what you can afford to lose, not what you hope...