Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After ten grueling hours of duplicate bridge over a two-day period, the four-man team from the Harvard Bridge Club copped the Ivy League Bridge Championship. Harvard's opponents in the match at Columbia over the weekend were Brown, Columbia, Princeton, and Pennsylvania...
...Dartmouth does not have to exaggerate the Carnival's attractiveness too greatly. It is claimed to be the "Mardi Gras of the North" and "A truly college, all college week-end--the biggest, coldest, and certainly the best-known in the world." It is certainly not the best college weekend in the country, that of the University of Colorado, for instance, being much better, but it does attract better looking women than the average Cambridge weekend...
Much of the answer to the dissatisfaction lies in the over-eager attitude the Dartmouth undergraduate has towards this event. The frustration inherent in the long journey to Smith or Vassar every weekend where the conditions are not exactly ideal is understandable, as is his hope for satisfaction during the course of the Carnival. But universal success can hardly be hoped for considering the sort of personality required to put out this sort of briefing for the Carnival date. "Sleep. Do it all before you arrive 'cause those strong, starved outdoorsmen as well as tweedy, pudgy pals have so much...
...week's end Charlie Wilson retired from the battlefield for a while. He and Jessie joined the boss aboard the presidential plane, Columbine III, for a trip south. Ike was heading for a Georgia golf weekend, the Wilsons for a two-week Florida vacation. Asked why he was accompanying the President, Wilson replied: "I was invited along." Jessie Wilson smiled amiably, this time said nothing...
...dictionary as living literature. "When I look up a word," he says, "I start to browse, and next thing I know, I've read four or five pages." (Now he bones up on the Rand McNally Atlas and the World Almanac before his sessions on the air.) One weekend in his teens, he picked up the Bible and read it through. He feels, however, that he never read in earnest until he decided to try for a Ph.D. in English literature. He systematically read his way through the Columbia library stacks on the subject, averaging 20 books a week...