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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This was not uncommon. Our school was engaged, at the time, in a small war with a neighboring parochial school called St. Anthony's. The St. Anthony's boys jumped us on the way home from school; we threw snowballs at the stained-glass windows in St. Anthony's. It was good clean fun and everybody enjoyed it. Hudson Park was the official battlefield for the war on weekday afternoons...
...Dever debate were those that the CRIMSON had the good taste not to print in accounts of the planned meeting. The failure of the Republicans to induce Mr. Coolidge to appear at Harvard to debate the Governor appears to have called forth from the HYRC an employment of invective uncommon to political controversies among men of honest convictions. This stream of scurrilous charges cannot hide the following unalterable facts...
Although there were M.D.s (including surgeons) on Northwestern's team, first comments by other surgeons on Dr. Graber's paper were sharply critical. Bad results from early operations, they argued, were uncommon, and happened because the surgeon was not as skillful as he should have been. Apparently it would take years-until many more children treated by Northwestern's method have reached jaw-growth maturity-for the results of the two systems to be compared, and the argument settled...
...bought some firearms and learned to use them, she became the village hunter and kept the whole area in meat, shooting game as big as hippopotamus. She knew nothing about surgery, but she studied old medical textbooks and, assisted by grit and prayer, tackled whatever came her way with uncommon success. She bought a wonderfully intelligent old Negro woman from her husband (for a few empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth) and trained her to become a first-class nurse. With makeshift instruments and chronically insufficient supplies, together they tended the sick over an enormous...
...Jackie Robinson himself, playing the title role. Burdened with some lines and situations that would weigh heavily on a professional actor, he gives a remarkably natural performance. Whatever his shortcomings as an actor, his playing mirrors not only a superb athlete but an earnest, thoroughly likable young man of uncommon moral stamina...