Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Texas Panhandle is a high (4,000 ft.) plateau, famed for its freakish weather, its cities that rise abruptly above the plain, its ranches, wheat and oil fields. It is so flat and landmarks are so rare that around Amarillo (pop. 52,000) early settlers plowed furrows from settlement to settlement to guide travelers across the trackless, treeless expanse. One such furrow was about 150 miles long. It was so bleak that an army officer who explored it in 1849 reported: "This country is, and must remain, uninhabited forever." Its wind and weather became so famous that Texans said, "There...
Only the quick actions of a Sophomore walking through the Yard at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon prevented a fire from consuming a large portion of the wooden scaffolding of the new rare book library...
...persons were X-rayed for tuberculosis - an all-time high - and hundreds of new cases discovered. The Department helped diagnose, treat and prevent such diseases as syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria. Private practitioners make ample use of the Department's laboratory service, which helps diagnose rare diseases such as parrot fever, leprosy, tularemia (rabbit fever...
Dunster succeeded Nathaniel Eaton, the first school Master, a "rare scholar" but one who fled after having corrected one of his assistants, for it is recorded that Eaton "beat him for nearly two hours with a walnut tree plant big enough to have killed a horse and a yard in length." For this disciplinary action the public demanded his discharge and a 30 pound fine...
Stanford has hailed several great coaches in its half-century of football: Walter Camp, Fielding Yost, Jim Lanagan, Pop Warner. But rare is the magic touch that has been Clark Shaughnessy's this year. A year ago, in his seventh season at the University of Chicago, Coach Shaughnessy's Maroons were the joke of the football world. At the end of the season, when President Robert M. Hutchins abolished intercollegiate football at Chicago, 48-year-old Clark Shaughnessy, a full professor of physical education at $9,000 a year, had to choose between teaching calisthenics or taking whatever...