Word: carpe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Griswold's announcement of Sunday last is one of momentous importance to the University's educational policy. It is only the crassest gynophobe who will carp at the decision contained therein--namely, to allow "a small number of unusually qualified girls" into the Law School next autumn. The enlightened will remember, with Dean Griswold, that "women have come a long way since they were first admitted to the American Bar Association in 1918," and further, that "many now serve with distinction on the bench...
...carp not, quoth the wise man; let not petty faction and bickering mar the happiness of this occasion; but rather gather to the radio and the television set, and witness in peace and harmony this meeting of the two great champions...
...ninth one week after a surprise presidential order transferred control of the nine transports to the Army from the Maritime Commission which had operated the ships for student travel last summer. The ships all capable of carrying up to 900 passengers, were the Ernic Pyle, the Marine Jumper, Marine Carp, Marine Marlin, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch, as well as the three boats named above...
...part of its program, the Maritime Commission had slashed the wartime limit of 900 passengers for each ship to 600 and added recreational facilities. The nine ships are the Ernie Pyle, Marine Tiger, Marine Jumper, Marine Shark, Marine Carp. Marine Marlin, Marine Flasher, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch...
...Male Teat. Few of Grand Central's sightseers were inclined to carp. To them, the Century's elegances were a glimpse of unknown comfort, a far cry from the jolting realities of everyday railroad travel. The truth was that the U.S. citizen, in his capacity as a passenger, had generally been regarded by the railroads as a damn nuisance. Until very recent times, the railroads have been mainly interested in freight. Empire Builder Jim Hill, gloomily contemplating one of his Great Northern Railway's Limiteds, once remarked: "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful...