Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement last night, Winans refused to comment on the charges made by Ryan. "I had better not say anything," he said. Winans noted that he regretted the resignations, and that the club would miss "the benefit of their good judgment and service...
...week's end the comment on buyer disenchantment was nowhere causing greater anguish than in Detroit. Motor moguls assumed that the President was talking at them, thereby giving further currency to charges that new cars are overstyled, oversized and overpriced. With sales running 1.2 million behind 1957 and inventories continuing to pile up, the President's comments, said one Detroit automaker, were "grossly unfair...
...worse, the main topic of business conversation last week centered around when the recession would end. The answer depended somewhat on who was talking. New York's Guaranty Trust Co. took a banker's grey view: "Prospects for a definite end . . . remain highly uncertain, despite . . . comment that the bottom may be close at hand." Said the equally august Chase Manhattan Bank: "It is possible that we may see an end before long...
Faculty members generally agree--on an abstract level--that undergraduate education is best served when the student and the professor can discuss the material at hand on a man to man basis. They agree--in theory--that a grade or a written comment is an unsatisfying substitute for the give and take of a first hand discussion and explanation. But somehow or other, the theory as well as the professor disappear every year at this time--professors have an annoying habit of going incommunicado both before and after they have graded senior honors theses...
...later comment, Bruner said that "I resent a statement that there is an official faith." In this society of "free spirit of inquiry," he continued, there "must not be an approved dogma...