Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planned on such ostentation. He only demanded that the bridge bear the following inscription: "May this bridge, built in memory of a scholar and soldier, connecting the college yard and playing fields of Harvard, bean ever-present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and Alma Mater, and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks of this river, to the nation and its needs...
...even as late as 1783, the Overseers reported that "it is not known yet what the late treasurer had received and paid." Hancock--by then governor of the Commonwealth--was enraged by this "indignity" and immediately switched his two sons from his alma mater to Yale...
...lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satch-mo") Armstrong, who correctly named six out of seven melodies on a TV quiz show (his flub: the prelude to Act III of Lohengrin), happily sent his $800 prize to his old alma mater, New Orleans' Milne Municipal Home for Boys, where Satchmo was sent at 13 after he prankishly fired a pistol at the moon to celebrate New Year...
...Western Union, a radio station), bought the ailing Post. Fox missed no sensational tricks to get circulation, used shock tactics to get Bostonians to read his own Page One editorials and his financial column under the byline "Washington Waters." Harvardman Fox also lashed out at his alma mater as a hotbed of Reds, and later took credit for the Post because "treason has gone out of style at Harvard." He urged, in effect, that the U.S. end the cold war by starting World War III. "The Great Attack, the last one we consider to be inevitable within five years...
Marquette University recently wrote that it would be happy to argue with any Harvard debaters touring the Wisconsin area. But the alma mater of Senator Joe would not quibble over such dry topics as Free Trade. Let us debate "McCarthyism," they suggested, and the old home town will pack the house. Their idea was modified to read, Resolved: That All Investigations of Subversives Should Be Restricted to the FBI. The Harvard team packed its evidence and headed West...