Word: correspondance
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...Balkans. All last week the Rumanian Ministry of Propaganda in Bucharest issued official denials to nosy correspond ents. It swore that King Carol II was not out of town. Actually, His Majesty speeded down the Chaussée Kisseleff from the Palace to the Royal Railway Station one morning along a route on which one newsman estimated there were 176 picked secret policemen, one every eight yards. The police were told that the King was going hunting with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mihai on the royal estate near Timisoara...
...hiring and firing rules, designed in part to ease the budgetary strain by eliminating deadwood at the assistant professor level, correspond almost exactly to Harvard's recently adopted system...
...principle of the machine's operation is based on the fact that a lead pencil mark is electrically conductive. The scoring key is prepared by making perforations to correspond in position with correct responses on the answer form...
...layout of the color reproductions of his various periods lends weight to a theory of mine: that artists lean to abstract painting when war is in the air. (Picasso's 1914-15 and 1935-36 periods would correspond to the beginning of the World War and to the Civil War in Spain...
...service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than you seem willing to pay it. No one will quarrel with reasoned, documented condemnation; what is really immoral is this arbitrary fixing of labels-"poetaster," "poeticule," "ham" (in a recent "review" of unhappy memory)-and then forcing the material to correspond to them. The pity of it is that you are influential. Your treatment of Dr. Williams' book does much to explain the indifference you mention in your first sentence...