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Word: gadding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...handsome deb Sir Gladwyn Jebb At Lake Success Has made a mess Of that Smart Alec Whose name is Malik. How Uncle Joe Must hate the show-His bright boy beaten, By Gad, by ETON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Speaking Up | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...House has illustrated an apparently common fallacy--that there is a scale of quality among the Houses. There appears to be a widespread belief among freshmen at least that certain Houses rank at the bottom of a College-wide caste system. One pictures the word sweeping around the Union: "Gad man, don't go to Leverett, it hasn't got a tower." Of course it might just as well be the size of courtyards, but this season it is towers, so hundreds of freshmen gallop off to beat on other portals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tower Fallacy | 3/31/1950 | See Source »

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