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Word: upness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, soccer should rate high at Harvard. A recent survey by Sports Illustrated placed the sport fifth on the list of "up" games--those that have gained social acceptance in collegiate circles--while football just edged into tenth position. Furthermore, there is a gentlemanly restraint that should appeal to the...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Captures Ivy Title, Wins Nine Sparsely Attended Games; Bagnoli, Sweeney, Hedreen Stand Out | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

The varsity rarely was able to get itself "up" for contests with non-Ivy squads. The team's three ties came at the hands of Amherst, Williams, and Columbia. (Columbia's soccer squad is not in the League as yet; it may be next fall.) When the Crimson did get...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Varsity Captures Ivy Title, Wins Nine Sparsely Attended Games; Bagnoli, Sweeney, Hedreen Stand Out | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

He paused for a bite of chicken fried rice. "When I lost the game," he continued, "the whole pattern came clear. The whole dull routine, class to class, book to book, learn a few facts and bull your way through an exam which doesn't make sense anyway. I decided...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Those Who Dare | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

A chair in geography could be set up and financed in part by the Department of History. There is precedent for such an arrangement. Henry C. Darby, noted English geographer, taught a course at the University last year stressing the interrelation of geography and English historical development.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Good Earth | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

Wooed by all nations, because of the power it holds with the working model of a bomb that can blow up all Europe, Grand Fenwick finally negotiates the capitulation of the U.S. Fenwickian wine gets a fair break in U.S. markets; Grand Fenwick keeps the bomb in cooperation with other...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The Mouse That Roared | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

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