Word: anent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewd Professor Donald Anderson Laird's query to the American Medical Association anent "a rational physiological explanation for having a Pullman passenger's head in the direction of motion" (TIME, April 29) is virtually identical in phraseology with a question put to Professor Laird last January in behalf of progress-minded Willis G. Gray, novelist-president of enterprising Scully-Walton Company, world's oldest (1882) and largest operators of private ambulances (New York, Brooklyn, The Bronx and London...
...Englishman of Kirkland House note with a great deal of paternal pride and affection the formation of a group in Winthrop House which has adopted as its very own the title worn by the Kirkland House society for the past four years. The notice in yesterday's CRIMSON anent a meeting of the Winthrop "Englishman" with Professor K. G. T. Webster as guest came as a distinct and pleasant surprise to members of the Kirkland House association of concentrations in English...
...enclosing a clipping from the Washington Herald of January 7th anent the new football coach. The article is appreciative of Mr. Harlow, but it is with a shade of regret that I note that in a moral way his aims, as expressed in the article, as well as those of the lamented Haughton, and, indeed, of Harvard, seem to lack something of the old Puritanical high-mindedness that was went to be associated with Harvard and New England. Clifford R. Richards...
...Bigger and Better Government Spending," and Moffet wants a power drive, "Let Private Business Do It." To complicate matters further, Hopkins demands a PWA play as Wallace insists his triple A threat will deliver the goods. This is a fascinating spectacle in all its ironic humor recalling satirical memories anent Ford's famous Peace Ship of some twenty years ago. All we need now is the fighting slogan, "Out of the Depression by Christmas...
...munching crackers and sipping sherry until 4:12 a. m.-the latest session of the House of Lords since 1887-as Labor peers asked endless questions anent the "Sedition Bill" (TIME, Nov. 12), all courteously answered by Viscount Hailsham, His Majesty's Secretary of State for War, once famed as Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg (TIME...