Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Otherwise, there were the usual conferences and brief interviews; and as always, the stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now...
Under its first president, William Rainey Harper, the school that John D. Rockefeller had founded in 1891 with a $600,000 gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings...
Hutchins was sure that he could. Chicago set up a college that was to give a basic liberal education by the end of the sophomore year. Students who wanted to specialize thereafter could do so in the university. Instead of a hodgepodge of electives, there were only four main course...
Ace Jockey Eddie ("Heady Eddie") Arcaro, riding Brookmeade Stable's Blue Hills, was two lengths in front as the horses flashed past the grandstand for the second time in last week's $15,000 added Pimlico Cup. As he had at the end of many a 1½...
His two lines alternate about every five minutes no matter which team has the ball. Coach Wilkinson thinks it is good for morale to let everybody help to score the touchdowns. In the era of super-coaching, when defensive and offensive adjustments are made up to the instant the ball...