Word: corresponding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valuable and practical attitude for the Chemistry Department to assume. After all, it is the student himself who knows whether or not he is really learning; more than that, the results of the Chemistry Department's poll indicate that the students' views as to a man's teaching ability correspond remarkably well to the opinions of the senior members of the department as to his promise in chemistry. But recognition is not enough; in establishing an active program for improving section men's teaching efforts, the department has set a precedent worthwhile of notice by the rest of the University...
...Herald's James Gordon Bennett for running "personals." Sample: "Mischievous Lizzy and Mary wish to form the acquaintance of two lively gentlemen . . . They must be of high society; none need answer unless sincere." The tony Saturday Review of Literature still carries such coy invitations as: "Will clever Cleopatra correspond with mature, amiable Antony...
...number was chosen to correspond to the membership of the Jews' last "Great Assembly," which met (according to Jewish tradition) in the 5th Century B.C. Its legislative work is summarized in its exhortation: "Be cautious in pronouncing judgment, have many pupils, and build a fence around the Torah...
Freeman has a quartermaster's command of the immense body of historical material he works with. His researcher's notes on white, blue, pink and yellow slips are arranged to correspond to the biographical plan he has carefully outlined in his notebooks. By the use of an ingenious system of numbers and symbols he can turn to any scrap of material he needs in a matter of seconds. After he has written a chapter, he "lets it cool" for a month and then his revisions always "cut the first draft to pieces." After the fourth typing he sticks...
...York World's Fair, in 1939. He visited the Finnish Pavilion on his days off, met and liked the Finns who worked there. A bachelor, he joined a Finnish club in Manhattan, went to dinners and dances there. When the fair ended, he began to correspond with his Finnish friends who had returned home. Said he: "The Finns are very straightforward and honest and dependable. They agree with me and I agree with them...