Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wouldn't know how the Harvard CRIMSON is ting it, but we are a wee bit wary about the effects of today's hockey game with the men from Cambridge. Not about the game itself. Both teams are champions in heir respective divisions and it will be interesting to see who wins. What we are most interested in is the effect that Harvard will have on the team...
Ever since her late husband changed the Broadmoor Palace from a horse-track into an ice rink in 1937 when the horse shows didn't show a profit, Mrs. Penrose has been earning name as the "Mother of Colorado Hockey," and has even instigated a Pee-Wee League and hockey school to develop future stars for Colorado College, a perennial ice power in the West...
...sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill, two of the Hill's key prominences went to her. Backstage at the National Theater, after one of her romps through a week's run of the bawdy drawing-room comedy Dear Charles, Tallulah, drowning out the wee, piping yips of her Maltese terrier, thundered "Dahling!" to a couple of "divine people" who had paid her homage after a hellish day in the House (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Her admirers: Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican sometime Speaker Joe Martin, successors to the gavel of Tallulah's daddy...
...Even so, the listener may not have an easy time of it. The various musical styles and the language of the texts are relatively unfamiliar (the singers wisely read an English translation of the texts before each vocal piece). The instruments used are now obsolete and belong to what wee called "low instruments"--the lowness referring not to pitch but to decibels--in this case, the recorder, lute, viol and clavichord, all of which had minute expressive range. The music, furthermore is mainly of an intimate sort designed to be heard at close range, not from the rear...
...such should not attempt to draw other types. In my freshman year in the College, I was put in a room with three athletes since I myself had played football in preparatory school. All had been given scholarships which depended on their full-time participation in athletics, and wee hardly capable of contributing intellectually to the College...