Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of the dispute was 33-year-old President Paul A. Wagner, who had swept into office only two years ago to the loud acclaim of trustees, faculty and students alike. What happened to Rollins, and to President Wagner, was a classic and tragic example of the dilemma to which well-intentioned and fair-minded men on both sides of an argument can come...
...tragic to see how successful the societies have been in keeping their members perpetually geared to the ideal of an undergraduate 'wheel...
...Kirby, a Negro boy, for a friend; but the boys are reaching the age when the South no longer permits easy fraternizing. At first, Foster cannot understand why his mother objects when he brings Kirby in through the front door, nor can she explain. The friendship ends in a tragic death: Kirby is killed in a riot at a football game between white and Negro boys. This brings the big test of Foster's young life; despite his mother's hysterical protest he goes to the Negro church for the funeral...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker: "It's a tragic thing to have happen at a time like this to one of the greatest soldier-statesmen America has ever...
Sign-out books have their tragic aspects, Sometimes boys discover that their date, supposedly working on her thesis for the past three weeks, has signed out 15 times to Kirkland House, Jim's and "driving...