Word: wister
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daniel Burrill Ray '49 of Brooklyn, New York and Winthrop House received, the Wister Prize awarded to the Senior who recorded the highest record in the Department of Mathematics during his undergraduate years. Ray's prize will be a grant of approximately...
...long seemed to be all right-even profitable-to use much gamier words, including blasphemy and obscenity, in U.S. novels. "Son-of-a-bitch" had quite a literary past, going back at least to Shakespeare (in King Lear). Owen Wister sounded it more discreetly in The Virginian (1902), where it was cloaked as "son-of-a -." The Virginian's ringing retort was well remembered: "When you call me that, smile." The only question was: Was it quite the proper phrase for the President to use in public, with or without smiling...
Quick on relexes and deceptive play, Wister Wood, from Penn Charter School, ranks as fourth. Captain Sam Hear, who wins with hard serves and powerful drives, completes the squad...
Today's probable starters are: Jim Bacon, Mug Mugaseth, Austin Flagg, Wister Wood, and Captain Sam Hoar...
...Command Decision," last year's Broadway hit by William Wister Hames, is the story of an sir general in England during the war, who is forced to decide whether the end will justify the means. The end is the shortening of the war in Europe by the immediate destruction of three German jet factories; the means are certain and exorbitant casualtics among his own men and the ruin of his own carer...