Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Bender yesterday clarified the status of a new ruling which would force all student investigation of the University's administrative department to clear through his office...
...situation at Sanders is intrinsically bad--there is enough activity to utilize two modern, fully-equipped auditoriums--by this one step the Dean's office can make a space application a reasonably clear-cut procedure...
...Eliot wrote for the magazine when he was at Harvard, which are reprinted in honor of his sixtieth birthday. In at least one of them--"Spleen"--there are traces of the point of view and the language that he developed later. And in all of them it is clear that T. S. Eliot was a writer and not a literary man. --Joel Raphaelson
...That F.D.R. Could Sleep. Sherwood makes it clear that there was but one unanimous choice for Supreme Commander of the invasion: George Marshall. It was F.D.R. who, first supporting Marshall, changed his mind. He then overrode Stalin and Churchill to name Eisenhower. Roosevelt explained his change of mind to Marshall : "I could not sleep at night with you out of the country." At the time, the country would undoubtedly have slept better had F.D.R. made what seemed the stronger choice...
...example as any. It is about the miserable effect as unsuccessful coming-out has on the creature who came out. Mr. Bush has a sense of character and he has a sense of narrative. But he confuses his reader far too often. He doesn't make his setting clear soon enough. He doesn't make his shifts from mood to mood easy enough to follow. And he doesn't quite manage to get across just what was wrong with the party, or with the girl, or with the girl's friends. He writes will enough in places so that there...