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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened to read this column Wednesday, you may remember that I swore to find out more about that Radcliffe Freshman. Here's the straight word. But first, just to freshen up your memory on her, she was the one a friend of mine overheard saying, at a Phillips Brooks House tea, that she came to Radcliffe because it's three hours from New Haven, switched from French to Drama soon after arriving, and thinks she may now have to transfer somewhere else on account of there's no Drama course at Radcliffe...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

...word is, don't pass up applying for a Rhodes Scholarship just because you're not a group one man. You've got to have pretty good grades all right, but they aren't any more important than being active in extra-curricular affaire, being able to think well on you feet, and being interested in athletics. If you can do all of these things, and are group three up, you are the ideal, well-rounded, red-blodded Rhodes Scholar...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

Cameras have second guessed the umpires on a crucial play in yesterday's World Series game, but the official word last night was that nothing could be done about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Camera Disputes Ump's Series Call | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

...other administrative departments before he was permanently installed in University 9. "I have become more and more enmeshed in the Dean's Office affairs," he wrote for his class' twenty-fifth alumni report, "and my claims as an economist are feeble." In the printing of the book the last word was altered to read "feeble-minded" but this Dean Leighton laughs about and possibly regards as a delayed "College" prank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delmar Leighton: "A Sort of Beadle" | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

Looking this over, I see that most of the words are "Boudrean." So maybe we've just going to have him with us wherever we go instead of Ted Williams. It isn't that I'd mind not knowing if an atom bomb hit New York. It isn't that Boudrean and the rest aren't all fine men, examples to American youth, and true to the game from the word go. It's just that a fellow likes to be alone sometimes...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

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