Word: contacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to the general impression that Billy Phelps likes everything and everybody (barring some modern novelists), he protests that he has at least a dozen prejudices: He hates musical comedies, trilogies, "female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list...
...Also forced to sacrifice will be the administration, for the abolition of intercollegiate competition in minor sports means the abolition of a corresponding amount of publicity--publicity which Harvard must greedily seek no matter how proud she is. It means in addition the abolition of a certain amount of contact with the rest of the collegiate world, and a shrinking back into a cramped Cambridge-New Haven shell. Fortunately these effects are quantitatively unimportant. And opposite them can be entered the more-than-compensating gains to the student body as a whole...
Coming into a more basic contact with the features of the area concentrations themselves, the Dean will appoint a committee from the faculty to investigate the desirability of general concentrations in each area: natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities...
Misfortune overtook Jim Curwen in the 100 free-style. Coming into his turn at the halfway mark, he spun without touching the wall and had to return to make contact, losing two body lengths in the process. He turned on the heat for his final fifty but his qualifying time of 55.4 was too slow to place him in the finals. Yale Captain Johnny Good took the final in the fine time of 52.7, eclipsing the meet record of 53 flat set by Charlie Hutter last year, and thus ending his career in Payne Whitney Pool with his best time...
Collectors, art dealers, and amateurs with whom I come in contact in the course of my own work, all have unanimously approved the article. Please give us some more of these thumbnail biographies of artists...