Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most widely hailed innovation last year was the addition of a program called "Armchair Audit" in which the top professors in the University gave condensed survey lectures on their respective fields...
...Armchair Audit" Popular...
Most widely hailed innovation last year was the addition of a program called "Armchair Audit" in which the top professors in the University gave condensed survey lectures on their respective fields. The feature will be continued this year but no definite programs have yet been planned...
...whom their saints were fellow citizens, worshiped God in their city and their city in God. The rest of the world seemed more remote than the saints. Wrote Gogol: "Moscow is an old home-keeping person, it bakes bliny, it looks from afar and listens, without rising from the armchair, to the tale of what goes on in the world." Muscovites retained their simple faith, which often took the homey form of poetic superstition. Perhaps the most widespread legend was that the huge Tower of Ivan within the Kremlin was married to the Sukharev Tower, a cute little number outside...