Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fear of damaging its reputation that motivates Harvard then why have different rules for the College and the Graduate School's? A scandal is going to have its repercussions no matter where it takes place; a stream of women emerging from Lowell House at midnight or one o'clock is no less a potential reputation-breaker than a stream of women emerging at midnight from the graduates center. Yet the parietal rules for the new Graduate Center allow the men to entertain chaperoned women in their rooms up to midnight (1 a.m. over the weekend), while the College rules allow...
Answered Rakosi: "It's no use. We can't turn the clock back." In the weeks following, the church brought up Mindszenty again & again. Rakosi was adamant...
...certain national sightseeing company, according to its brochure, operates out of such places as Death Valley, Carlsbad Caverns, Columbia Icefields, and Indian Detours. It also sends a bus to "Educational Boston, Cambridge, and Harvard University" at 12 noon and 3 o'clock on every day that it can round up four or more passengers. About 20 people took the noon excursion last Tuesday, including a couple from Detroit, a Latin American, and a public-relations man who spent the ride telling the Latin American about the virtues of Southern California...
...observers of the semi-annual five-o'clock sprint can testify, today is the last day to hand in a study card free. Tomorrow it costs. Today's deadline marks the end of the shortest period of course-shopping ever, for gone is the petition (free) to add or drop courses for a week after study cards...
Near Smile. About 1000 B.C., court artists tried to set the clock back to old King Khephren's time. The new sculptures went back only part way. "They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...