Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revelation to most people, and a survey as methodical as this picture cannot hope to contain thrills and excitement. Instead it works up an almost morbid eagerness to find out what new civilized horror is coming next. Sympathetic characters turn out to have subconscious prejudices, and each unkind word strikes a new blow at the hero. As usual there is a love story in the middle, and very soon even it becomes entangled with anti-semitism...
Most gawked-at conferee: 21-year-old Barbara Jo Walker, a Memphis Sunday-school teacher who also happens to be Miss America of 1947. Fellow delegates hung on her every good word. Typical was a freckle-faced Kentuckian who fell into step beside her as she was leaving one of the meetings. "You're so important and all," he said, "I was wondering what you think is the big job we boys and girls have to face up to." Replied beautiful Barbara Jo: "I think we've got to find a way to lasting peace...
...only lone thing-victory, and victory at any cost. He came from a Western Maryland team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won nothing anybody could remember for three years, and the ugly word was out that Harvard was going to indulge in underhand player solicitations. Harlow did not proselytize, solicit, or finagle. "I wanted to be associated with a decent institution before I die," he has since said. And the great triumph of his tenure at Harvard--the longest in the college...
...Respectable" is a word that the current generation of undergraduates may consider to be inaccurate. Not many buttons popped off vests after the Virginia, Rutgers, and Princeton games this season. Furthermore, members of the squad, if ubiquitous rumors in the Boston press have any truth behind them, have not found life milk and money on Soldiers Field this past fall. Taken in the light of the fact that Dick Harlow has been a sick man, the existence of dissatisfied undergraduates and disgruntled football players should surprise nobody. The surprising thing is that dick Harlow was able to achieve what...
...word statement outlining its decision, the Faculty cited the 70 percent preponderance of non-Harvard contributions and the fact that two-thirds or more of the subscriptions to the magazine would be outside the University as the major reasons for denying recognition to The New Student...