Word: asp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city editors in the U.S., few are as well conditioned to subdue tigers barehanded as the 15 who work for Hearst. Of that little band, none has reigned longer or more despotically than the Los Angeles Examiner's asp-tongued James H. (for Hugh) Richardson. In a 20-year running feud with slow-moving staffers and half the officialdom of Los Angeles, one-eyed Jimmy Richardson (he lost his right eye in a slingshot accident at the age of seven) has driven a long parade of newsmen to pressagentry. the bottle-or to fame. He also bullied and blarneyed...
...digging, "has ever been found in an early Christian cemetery." Some of the paintings show episodes from the life of Christ (the Sermon on the Mount) and from Judaeo-Christian legend (Lot and his daughters), while others are wholly pagan. Cleopatra is shown in a flower garden, holding an asp to her breast. A cubicle is devoted to the labors of Hercules. Other pictures seem to be scenes from contemporary Roman life, such as a teacher apparently lecturing about anatomy...
...good Dean's statement represents is revealed when one realizes what preventive measures are currently under consideration. One of the gruesome tortures being meditated is a system of signing out and in before and after holidays. If this rank regimentation fails to work, then the authorities have another asp in their basket--hour exams on the last day of classes before holidays...
...Harvard crew was a great one. It had taken all opposition. Bill Leavitt, current freshman coach, was the cox, Bill Curwen stroked, Ollie Iselin, another former captain, rowed seven. The boat also included Frank Strong, Clarence Asp, Ted Reynolds, now 150 coach, Don Felt, now assistant athletic director, Mike Scully, and Ted Anderson...
Adler, who "started strangling the snake of positivism almost in his cradle," confuses his philosophical asp with his theological elbow-and TIME comes tumbling after. What Adler would do is to identify philosophy with religion. Though this is not a new enterprise, Adler thinks that he has given it what it has for centuries lacked: a sound logical basis. Modern logicians (fusty gentlemen who, as a rule, do not hire others to do their doctoral research), many of whom are not positivists, refuse to preside at Adler's shotgun marriage. Thus Adler's quarrel is not only with...