Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One official was heard to remark: "She gets less things done wrong than anyone I ever ran into." One of the things she got done was a boost in salaries, which endeared her to the faculty. She settled firmly into the president's chair, surveying the academic world with...
Such questions were interesting but academic. If the San Francisco conference descended to such sordid legalistic maneuvering, world security would be a dead duck.
¶ Said Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, didactic Episcopal churchman: "The modern American university . . . will not face fundamental moral issues. . . . It ignores God and thinks and acts as though man is a creature who only needs to know the right in order to do it. The result . . . is an academic befuddlement...
It is uncertain whether informal spring teams will be able to continue activities during the summer months under the present revised academic schedule.
Thus Marshal Stalin had entered the Big Three conference with the key to Europe in his trousers pocket. The Big Three's award to Russia of an administrative slice of eastern Germany was almost academic. Stalin had also realized one of the oldest Bolshevik dreams.