Word: bellum
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...honors candidates will simply be asked to answer two of three questions, while honors men will answer them all. Which is a tacit admission that they will be expected to know only two-thirds as much as they once had to Lacking the money to re-institute the ante-bellum miracle of full tutorial, the English Department is at least making sure that its huge enrollment gets an organic grasp of the chopped-up area. For this reason the members of the Department can feel that they made the best of a tough situation; but it must also be unpleasant...
...probably other reasons--perhaps greater maturity of the student or just a surplus of expendable cash--for the rise in sales of what Miss Lyons might call "esthetic records." In any case, the Harvard record buyer has escaped from the stereotyped taste which characterized many of his ante-bellum brothers...
Eating houses in the University vicinity found a new competitor last night in the Eliot Grill, opened for the first time since ante-bellum days, and the staff or four which manned the new eating emporium was still wondering way a veteran-riddled college was drinking as much milk today as it did cokes in the pre-war period...
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
Afterward he indulged in no romantic retreat into the Lost Cause. Life at Glen Lily, the general's 1,000-acre estate near Munfordville, Ky., went on in much the same spacious ante-bellum way. But the general hustled out to enlarge the fortune he had made speculating in Chicago real estate, get himself elected Governor of Kentucky, belabor the reformers. At 62 he took a 28-year-old bride, and fathered the present lieutenant general...