Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conspicuous around the "campus" are the mysterious sanctums of the secret societies. No living soul, supposedly, knows the membership of these organizations save the members themselves, and no person of the outside world has even seen a member in the act of entering the building. The Book and Snake sanctum, as an example, is a plain white stone cubical structure surrounded by a massive iron fence and having no visible means of entrance. Meetings it is rumored, are held at midnight, but that's only hearsay...
Struggling to cope with the greatest deluge of ticket applications since the glorious heydays of the twenties, the Harvard Athletic Association has been forced to limit both undergraduates and graduates to no more than two seats per person for Saturday's encounter with the Elis, Ticket Manager Frank O. Lunden disclosed yesterday...
...Webster: "Jew ... any person of the Hebrew race or whose religion is Judaism...
...books (China to Me, The Soong Sisters, Hong Kong Holiday) impertinent, casual Emily Hahn proved that she was the only living person who could write about China as though it slept under her pillow. Raffles of Singapore has just the same chummy tone; few historical figures have ever been apostrophized so chattily, so personally-at times, Hero Raffles simply gets lost in the Hahn handbag, like a lipstick. Nonetheless, Raffles of Singapore is a lively, unconventional biography, which is also as formless as a conversation conducted by walkie-talkie...
...show anything novel today, relying on the power of the Varsity line to support Chip Gannon and O'Donnell on their off-tackle slants and end sweeps, and to pave the way for Vince Moravee on his guard smashes and spins. A newly-arisen passing threat in the person of Gannon, whose aerial attempts have shown constant improvement, should lead the required variety...