Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents second-generation nouveaux, preferably the youngest and thus farthest removed progeny of a robber baron. After acquiring a Swiss governess and later a secondary school education in Paris, our critic purchases four pin-stripe suits of recognized quality (perhaps also a pipe), adopts his middle name for use colloquially (reserving his first initial as a prefix to his universally respected signature), and enters Harvard. Once here, he soon verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from the cranium of F. L. Seidel, himself a great Advocate critic a couple of years ago, a man than...
...Quincy House dining hall will be ready for use next September, but apparently cannot accommodate the Leverett House group. The Leverett dining room is to be extensively modified. Repairs will continue throughout the summer and fall. Soundproofing will be installed, and the steam tables will be moved back into the present kitchen area...
...strong in the 220 and 440-yard freestyles in the person of John Daniels. Against him will be some combination of Koni Ulbrich, Fred Cooley, and Dave Seaton in the 220 and Bob Komanda in the 440. The Lion's third big strength is the dive, where the use of a low board favors the Lion's Stew Summers and Glenn Gemelli over Chick Montgomery. The home pool factor, however, may be able to offset this and break up the Dartmouth combination...
...Foster, wrestling at 157 and 177 respectively, are both unbeaten this season and will be looking for their sixth victories in a row. Foster, who is slightly injured, is a doubtful starter. Coach Robert A. Pickett says that he is ready, but is not sure whether he will use Foster or Tom Hill...
...conflict between these two groups is primarily at the symbolic level. For traditionalists, any use of the word "growth" or "adjustment" is enough to induce rage, no matter what the context or meaning. Conversely, for many progressives the suggestion that knowledge is best organized into "subjects," or that the mind can profit from "discipline," raises such a repellent image of rote learning and tedious pedantry that they will hear no more of the matter...