Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last night's vote ends over a year of active discussion and five year's of informal talk about the letter status of soccer. It follows in the wake of decisions by other Ivy League schools to equalize nearly all sports, and leaves Cornell as the only college with a soccer team in the league which is not ranked as major...
...elephant wheeled and bolted. The rhino charged, snorting in the elephant's wake and trying to gore him with her 24-in. horn. Talbot watched from the rumble seat as the rhino drew alongside the elephant and ripped an 18-in. gash in his side. Then the two animals veered apart as if on diverging rails. "I suppose " says Talbot, "that mama went back to her baby and told him: That's how it's done...
Vamp-laid in the era when moviemaking shifted from East Coast to West-turns Carol Channing from a lummoxy farm girl to a reigning screen vamp, while getting in her way or following in her wake are up-from-corsets movie producers snakehearted ingénues, oriental shenanigans and Biblical films. But what chiefly ails the story is that it never really evokes 1914, or early Hollywood, or actual vamps; there is no fondness to its memories or sharpness to its stings...
...Cares?" All too often she found that her students had no desire to learn. Whatever wit they had, they directed mostly to thinking up excuses for being late ("I was dreamin' about ya, Mrs. Beal, an I didn' wanna wake up"), and finding ways to resist vocabulary drill ("So who cares? I say a woid like dat an all my frens laugh at me. Nobody know what dat woid means"). Almost every class had its sullen and defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that...
Chicago Publisher John H. Johnson (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950), who has launched three other money-making magazines, Jet, Tan and Hue, in Ebony's wake, has had to weather some major setbacks. Ebony, flourishing at first on a spicy diet of sex and sensation, dropped 100,000 circulation last year. Publisher Johnson, 37, countered with a drive for home subscribers, dropped cheesecake and gossip for more serious reporting of Negroes in the news, and won back his readers. Johnson learned the hard way that the new-style Ebony is more in tune with its readers' interests. Says...