Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seager, whose 75 was low medal Monday, will play in the number two position, followed by Captain Bob Matson, Jack Denton, Dave German, Paul Weissman, and Hugh Nawn...
Before their talks, the visitors will be entertained by David M. Little '17, Secretary to the University, at a luncheon in Eliot House. John P. Coolidge '35, Director of Fogg Museum, described Munch as a pioneer in the modern movement who particularly influenced the German expressionists. His effect on contemporary art is comparable to that of Ibsen and Strindberg on the stage. Munch died...
Blue-eyed, brunette Ellen Raphael Knauff, 35, is the German-born war bride of a U.S. Army combat veteran. She is also an anti-Nazi who fled Germany and served as a wartime sergeant in the British WAAF. But she has not been able to gain admission to the U.S. When she came to Ellis Island 20 months ago, the Department of Justice's immigration service excluded her as a security risk, without revealing the evidence against her or giving her a hearing. Last January, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the exclusion order without requiring the Department of Justice...
...undergraduate has been variously damned as a swot, a brown-bagger or a mug. Chemistry is still stinks, Thucydides is Thicksides, and studying education is doing Eddyoo. To be failed in an examination has traveled from being gravelled (after Marlowe's Faustus, who "gravelled the pastors of the German church") to being gulphed, ftoor&d, knocked out, pilled, pipped, ploughed or plucked...
...Slavic and German communities along the U.S. "polka circuit," nobody has to be told about Frankie Yankovic and his five-man polka band. In a year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in theaters, clubs and dance halls from Scranton, Pa. to Girard, Kans., and from Calumet, Mich, to the Ohio River. In big towns on the circuit, they have been known to outdraw such name bands as Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe 2 to i. In small mining and farming communities a Yankovic appearance can bring out a crowd that is twice the size...