Word: assign
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sports editor (also Yale '36) is curly-haired, gregarious Bob Cooke, who once did a sports column for the Yale Daily News, played right wing on the varsity hockey team, was an Army flyer (in B-26s) during the war. His first official act was to assign himself back to the Brooklyn Dodgers; Woodward had switched him this year to cover the New York Yankees...
...with his charge shall transcend the signing of a study card, and that he shall attempt to awaken the latter's interest in the educational enterprise, or, finding it awake, pass him along into the tutorial program where he belongs. Where tutorial is too strictly limited, the advisor may assign readings and carry on the work of tutoring within reasonable bounds...
...users of the most popular texts to sign them in every hour so that others may have a turn; but it is hard to get much done when someone is sitting three chairs away waiting eagerly for the end of the hour. The University should change its policy and assign extra copies of vital books to the Houses where they will be in constant use, instead of keeping the whole horde at Boylston on the Union, where it is subject mostly to afternoon and evening rushes. Besides, that long invigorating walk through the cool and healthful night air is highly...
Actually, the message contained little that Harry Truman had not recommended in scattershot fashion before. But by failing to assign any order or priority to his sweeping proposals, the President was obviously, and shrewdly, gunning for every vote he could reach...
...Government 13b, Radcliffe sits in the back five rows of Emerson D or in seats over at the side near the windows "that the monitors will not assign to Harvard because of the draft." Although they have the "new long skirts to wrap about their ankles," says the News, the girls still suffer from cold ankles...