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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Gerard Fountain finds that, "These girls are more serious than the students I went to school with." Dean Fountain is a graduate of Yale. The girls back up this statement with tales of the many weekday hours spent in study. Just why Sarah Lawrence girls take their studies so seriously is difficult to analyze. Certainly progressivism must be given most of the credit, for the importance of education is emphasized and reemphasized...

Author: By John C. Grosz, | Title: Sarah Lawrence: Experiment in Individualism | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

While perhaps Voschinin was deliberately exaggerating his group's duties, anyone who spent much time with the delegation during its 6 1/2 day stay in Cambridge would have to agree that the visitors went out of their way to emulate the trip of Premier Khrushchev in September when peace, friendship, and coexistence were the dominant themes...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman g, | Title: Soviets in Cambridge | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Lucius always found it challenging to try to work after a meal, and again his thoughts went to the game. He had not been since that time his first year, and this would be his last chance. It still was not too late, for Lucius was never one to waste an opportunity, and he always applied for his free ticket and carried it with him on Saturday just as a precaution...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: To the Playing Field | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Once a decision was made, Lucius always carried it through ruthlessly, and rolling down his sleeves, he wrapped his fork and prepared to set off. Moments later he went right on out of the library, hardly recognizing the amazed bookchecker as he passed. After pausing briefly to get directions, Lucius made his way towards the bridge. As he made the crossing, he was startled, but not put off, by a great roar from the stadium...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: To the Playing Field | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Flattered by this attention, Lucius decided it was time to really do things properly. There was a little of the Dionysian in Lucius too, and as a vender went by hawking food, Lucius raised his voice, "Please, one frankfurter." He sacrificed the coin and in a moment the frankfurter was his. To his horror it arrived covered with relish. Relish did not agree with Lucius, and he determined to take it home and scrape...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: To the Playing Field | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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