Word: greener
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fruitless battle against wholesale revision of the parietal rules. What the supposedly senescent and slumbering law and graduate students are doing in the Graduate Center could at least be equalled by the fine flower of our student body in its tenements. The grass doesn't have to be greener on the other side of the fence. Frederick Holborn '49, 1 PA Lloyd Rudolph...
...After the 1942 season, Rickey left St. Louis for a potentially greener pasture, Brooklyn. While other clubs, waiting for the stars to return, played wartime baseball with tired old men, Rickey was signing bright young prospects to Brooklyn contracts before Uncle Sam took them away. At war's end, Rickey had the biggest batch of young baseball talent in the country. In 1947, the Old Mahatma had given Brooklyn its second pennant in 27 years...
...long prayed for rain. They were used to seeing the Rio Grande shrunk to a brookwide trickle, too thick to drink, too thin to plough. They were used to seeing their reservoirs low, their rolling ranges burned brown. Often they were forced to ship their cattle away to greener pastures. Many a sun-scorched New Mexican had said resignedly: "The Lord made the state dry. I guess He wants it that...
...Time to Look Back, by Leslie Greener. A South African novelist finds a Christlike figure among the prisoners in a Japanese P.W. camp, traces his influence on prisoners and guards in a moving, if sometimes oracular story (TIME...
...Time to Look Back, by Leslie Greener. A South African novelist finds a Christlike figure among the prisoners in a Japanese P.W. camp, traces his influence on prisoners and guards in a moving, if sometimes oracular story (TIME...