Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of intangible mystique which can be felt by any Freshman during his first week here. This attitude has both its good and bad sides. At its best, it produces a drive for, and appreciation of, excellence; it maintains high standards and good taste. At its worst, however, it gives rise to cavalier disdain and snobbery, to what has been termed "upper-directed" behavior, to pride, and to false pride. Humility remains a rare quality at Harvard...
...what Wessell called "the worst September for hiring in the last 15 years," the Personnel Office has had a constant list of about 100 jobs waiting to be filled. At least 30 of these are always for typists and shorthand experts...
...varsity cross country team absorbed one of the worst shellackings in recent history Saturday at Franklin Park. With the large total of 51 points, the Crimson tied Cornell for second behind a strong Brown squad which ran up only 18, three above the minimum...
...what it sees, and gossip has become a visual as well as a verbal art. This is vividly apparent in Observations, a sort of peeping tome in which Photographer Richard Avedon's pictures are discussed by Author Truman Capote. Unfortunately, Capote writes in a style that combines the worst features of Henry James, Dorothy Kilgallen, and deb talk (says he of Marilyn Monroe: "Just a slob really: an untidy divinity-in the sense that a banana split or a cherry jubilee is untidy but divine"). But Avedon's pictures have the poignancy, and sometimes the pettiness, of inspired...
Meanwhile steel disputants today awaited President Eisenhower's decision on invoking the Taft-Hartley act to end the 86 day steel strike, worst in the industry's history...