Word: comee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructors which seemed to stick in his mind. The instructor had said with great fervor and obvious fondness for the great poet that Shakespeare is as much alive today as he was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Exciting--Vag thought--if the immortal bard were really to come to life again for a day, just to see what he would think...
These contracts of the Civil Aeronautics Authority with Wiggins Airways, the University's flight operator, are all that have been holding things up for the last two weeks, Bollay declared, and as soon as they come and a schedule of training flights has been made out, the students who have passed the necessary requirements will graduate to the East Boston airport, where Wiggins has installed a fleet of 20 new Piper Cubs for the course...
...period of years, for a lesser number of full professorships. Under such a policy, no one would be tagged as destined from the outset to be given a full professorship, and none need be tagged as destined to be denied it. Under such a policy, disappointments when they come would be gradual, and would be founded at least on permanence rather than prediction. We cannot believe that the avoidance of such disappointments ought to be the lodestar of a tenure system...
...cases," continued Dr. Graham, "where the cancer is not too far advanced, the operation can be done with a mortality of only ten percent. When the cancer is advanced, however, the mortality jumps to 40 or 50%. A very discouraging feature is that about 80% of those patients who come for operation are too far advanced to have a chance...
Into a war so gingerly regarded from the start by almost every mature writer of Britain, many writers were going while yet immature and unknown. Nobody could foresee who might survive it, nor what writing might come of it. Yet there were many to remember Wilfred Owen, the round-faced, silent young officer who was killed a week before the Armistice in 1918, and the few terrible poems published after his death...