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...Everybody gets what he pays for at Harvard football games except the customer," is a time-worn Boston adage. Players, as a general rule, don't get a clean towel out of season. Hence, Harvard doesn't always get the best players...
...together at a trot, the way she always goes about things . . . We kept on bumping into Roosevelts ... I can't recall how many [but] they all seemed glad to be there . . . Then we reached the kitchen, and I tell you my heart sank . . . Dark-looking cupboards . . . sinks with time-worn wooden drains, one rusty wooden dumbwaiter." Rats, cockroaches, ants, moths shared living space with 32 servants: there wasn't a cookbook in the whole place, or "enough utensils to cook a fair-sized family meal." "You're not to worry . . . You're going...
While undergraduates steeped themselves in course work supposedly completed before Christmas vacation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences took tea on the first Tuesday of the new year and legislated the present time-honored, time-worn course numbering system out of existence...
...money-he paid in U.S. greenbacks, because his country had no paper currency.* That was the heritage of bankruptcy and economic dependence on the U.S. Now the Dominican Republic is strong, its external debt paid off (since July), its internal debt minuscule. Last week, Dominican banks started taking in time-worn green-inked engravings of Washington and Lincoln, replacing them with crisp Dominican peso notes bearing the likeness of local heroes...
...script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs of that seet with all the necessary finesse and still draw the comedy of ardent pacifists playing hosts to a befuddled rustler. While the action follows through to the hoped-for conclusion, the climax happily avoids time-worn convention. John Wayne's choice between the security of his gun and beautiful Gail Russell comes over as a very real emotional problem and allows the execution of a neat surprise ending...