Word: founding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week stone-throwing Bill Bingham found out what it was like to live in a glass house. Harvard had finished the most calamitous season on record (one victory, eight defeats), and the Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...
George Cameron, 40, struck it rich in Colorado's Rangely oilfield. After drilling 40 productive wells in a row, with an annual income of $600,000 pouring relentlessly on top of his previously oil-won millions, he settled down in Tulsa, Okla. But the new-found leisure bored him. "Oil just means more money," he complained, "I can't sleep with it. I have no sense of doing or accomplishing anything...
...weeks as a woman outcast, Reporter Browning had skillfully told her phony, woeful tale to priest, to minister, in Salvation Army hostels and gospel missions, and had found charity everywhere. She had narrowly escaped being firmly placed in a home for unmarried mothers, was compelled to accept money from strangers (she sent it all back), had 19 offers of free lodging with meals, and scores of offers of help in finding work...
When it was all over, Reporter Browning found it was "the hardest thing I ever tried to write. It's easy to expose people, but hard to be nice . . . They were really good...
...Epics. But the congestion and confusion, Berlin decided, had also a more sinister cause. U.S. universities, he found, were plagued by an enervating sense of guilt-a "state of mind of academic persons . . . whom war service or some other sharp new experience has made painfully aware of the social and economic miseries of their society. Like the youthful Kropotkin ... a student or professor in this condition wonders whether it can be right for him to continue to absorb himself in the study of, let us say, the early Greek epic at Harvard, while the poor of south Boston go hungry...