Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of suggestions as to why Harvard men feel as they do about Lesley. Lesley, they explained, is not a big "prestige" school, but it's surrounded by them. "We're just dwarfed by those tzig schools," Fran noted. The girls pointed out that Lesley freshmen are required to wear beanies during the traditional Fall hazing. This is a custom followed at many girls colleges, but only at Lesley must the beanie-wearing freshmen romp through "sophisticated" Harvard Yard...
...everyone from her own doctor to one of the FBI's ten top fugitives. In such cases, the penal code of the State of Nuevo León specifies that the suspect be placed in a line-up with similar persons in similar dress. Simmons was ordered to wear a white shirt and dark trousers and brought into the room with white-coated doctors. Hilda by then could hardly speak; a bullet had destroyed her tongue and upper teeth. The prosecutor leaned close and only he heard her alleged words: "Yes, it is he. May God forgive...
Kresge knew well how to pinch pennies-or at least nickels and dimes. He bought his clothes off the ready-to-wear racks, traveled in a Pullman upper berth because the fare was lower than for the lower. He allowed himself the luxury of a 10? shoeshine, but stopped after his shoeshine boy raised the price to 15?. Colleagues once persuaded him to take up golf as a hobby, along with beekeeping he had enjoyed since boyhood, but he soon gave up the game because he lost too many golf balls. Invited to speak at the 1953 dedication of Harvard...
...rule lingers, too, as a "gesture of courtesy" to professors, who, the Radcliffe administration feels, would prefer not to have girls wear slacks to their classes. But very few professors read the Radcliffe Redbook and the girls in slacks appear regularly anyway...
Although many girls wear pants despite the no-slacks restriction, the rule has been a part of Radcliffe heritage as long as anyone in the Dean's office can remember, and no one feels the need to change...