Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of these facts, the University feels able to maintain only "the core of the program." Varsity tennis will be untouched "because of the benefit from the intercollegiate program," and Freshman tennis will be kept "because it is an integral part of the hygiene program, and because if it were discontinued several hundred men would be thrust into other sports, already very crowded...
Behind the plea was a core of heartrending statistics. At war's end, some six million Japanese soldiers and civilians had been stranded overseas. The U.S., Britain and China had repatriated four and a half million. The Russians still held one and a half million. Of these, 800,000 were veterans of the Kwantung Army, who had been captured by the Russians in Manchuria. Their whereabouts was a mystery...
...college level, the committee also urged a common core, thought it was high time that Harvardmen in particular had something more in common than the ability to write grammatical English and swim 50 yards. The committee recommended the introduction of cut-across courses in the humanities, social sciences and science. Adopted almost unanimously by the Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences, such general education courses will get under way next week, on an experimental basis...
...talent for getting to the core of abstruse subjects made him one of the leading lights of the Shop Club, a once-a-month supper club founded (to talk shop) in 1921 by Conant and a group of his faculty friends and their wives. Conant was a good listener and a quick questioner, especially on history, literature and philosophy. He once remarked to an associate who was studying 17th Century history: "I sometimes wonder if our two subjects aren't both the same, when you get high enough into them...
...Morning has enough to satisfy the hard core of Wodehouse readers (the average, annual P. G. W. novel sells 10,000 copies in the U.S.). But it has only a trace of real mirth for those who believe that in spasmodic moments of his heyday, Wodehouse was one of Britain's most talented comic writers...