Word: beeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard spends its money wisely today because its officers remain what they have always bee good Yankee businessmen. Petty economics are practical, and in a large institution they add up. Students often attack some of these savings, but even the cities must admit that the Corporation has managed Harvard's finances wisely and well...
Pioneer in the composition of English congregational hymns was Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Author of Our* God, our help in ages past, often voted the greatest English hymn of all, Watts was also a writer of hymns for children, authored the well-known query, "How doth the little busy bee . . ." and the warning that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." But his touch for juvenile hymns is not always suited to modern taste. For example...
...amazed by the hurdles thrown in the path of the judges at the National Spelling Bee [TIME, June 5]. The laugh should have been on those who meddled with the dictionary spellings, rather than on the contest judges . . . To spell supersede with a "c" and coruscate with a double "r" is to disregard the Latin roots from which they stem. Sedere and cedere have entirely different meanings in Latin...
...this trend continues, there will soon be no purpose in a spelling bee. When we reach phonetic spelling (it will then be fonetic), the stupid will be able to spell as well as the bright...
...life, like a bee at a rose, began very early to torment Rainer Maria Rilke. It tormented him unceasingly for 51 years, extracting from him a rarefied poetry that has delighted the palates of European esthetes for the last quarter-century. Yet Rilke's poetic flavors-and the morbid scent of wet rot that rises from his life-have prevented many a poetry reader from acquiring the Rilke taste...