Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their Congressman or Senator with heavy dinners, 2) Washington hostesses who stuff him with rich viands, 3) filibustering. Of the last hazard Dr. Calver said: "I have been known to make people stop speaking." His filibuster buster: he sends one of the orator's colleagues to deliver a casual warning: "Dr. Calver is watching you, and you're going...
Currently there are 85 recognized college-wide organizations at Harvard, including as members more than half the undergraduate community. Some--like the language clubs and the casual hobby groups--do little more than provide an opportunity for individuals to pool their common interests. Others--the student publications and drama groups, for example--pose some sizable problems for the educator through their burgeoning competence and professional skill...
...evaluation of Lewis will probably attract a limited audience, and the author of "Wyndham Lewis" has made no effort to entrap the casual reader. The book is a work of scholarship, and makes no particular attempt to capitalize on Lewis' volcanic personality or his famous colleagues. Wagner writes clearly, if without particular flair, and covers his points in orderly progression. Though the scholarly tone of the work and its meticulous consideration of details will probably deter the general reader, it contains much of interest about a provocative man in a turbulent literary...
...casual conversation with Shaw, Parkman discovered the double dealing, and on the Monday before his disappearance, he went to see Webster in the professor's back room at the Medical School, and asked if the professor were "ready" for him. Webster replied that he could not yet pay the remaining debt, whereupon Parkman accused him of selling the collection that did not belong to him. A few words were exchanged, and Parkman left, saying, "Doctor, something must be accomplished tomorrow...
Saturday is jazz day on WHRB. From 3 to 8 p.m. ACCENT ON JAZZ brings you a variety of sounds and jazzmen carefully selected for casual Saturday listening...