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...scores indicate Brown's style of play. Since the Bruins' scoring punch rests in only a few men and their bench is one of the thinnest in the East, they play tight, defensive hockey. While they don't pack their goal as weak teams, like Cornell and Tufts, are wont to do, they practice little forechecking, and attempt to pick up the opponents' wings at center...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Varsity Faces Strong Bruin Sextet In Season's First League Contest | 1/6/1960 | See Source »

...modern psyche, as I am wont to call it," the Professor was saying, "is best with multitudinous problems brought on by modern civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

...inheritance from Cezanne. The transition from one painter to the other is direct and complete. Their aesthetic credos coincide and their sucessive development is a matter of logical procession. Yet, it is seldom that one sees the two exhibited side by side. Collectors whose tastes embrace Cezanne somehow are wont to find Picasso extreme and lately it has become fashionable to see the older master as a conservative, so a chance to see the two in close proximity is welcome and valuable...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Two Masters | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

Such keen interest in current issues indicates the academic community is anxious to discourage the widely held notion that professors are anemic cowards who cling to the cloistered life because they fear the road where men are wont to tread. Indeed, the success of academic penetration into the social, political and literary life of the country shows how well the academy has destroyed this myth...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Moral Compensation | 3/11/1959 | See Source »

...announcer mounted to the platform, and introduced L.L. as one of the top bandleaders in the country, presenting him, as is the wont of most announcers, "without further...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remember the Alamo | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

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