Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on the CEP report, Frohock stated that if the faculty passes it, "the chief effect will be to push us in the direction in which we have been going already." Last year the department started sophomore tutorial and tutorial for credit, "and we plan to continue these again next fall." The Chicago Tribune in the recent survey of Harvard implied that the department was not outstanding in all aspects...
...Liberal Pearson conceded the Tory victory, then sadly watched it roll westward across the time zones. It left the once-dominant Liberals with 49 seats, reduced the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to a splinter of 8 seats, totally wiped out of Parliament Western Canada's funny-money Social Credit movement, which held 19 seats in the old House of Commons. Surveying the wreckage of his party's national ambitions, Alberta's Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning offered a wry jest: "The voters have put all their eggs in one basket and shot...
Michigan: "I live like a damned dog. I am supporting my wife, my four children and myself (all in one establishment) on take-home pay of $3,600. This is if I'm lucky. All the rest, if any, goes to the credit managers. Moral-the least you can do at Little, Brown (in addition to shooting four or five credit boys) is send me free books...
With this financial peace of mind, likened by Sloan Wilson, sometime teacher of English, to a professor's "permanent tenure," Novelist Wilson, at 37, hopes to become "an old-fashioned man of letters whose obituary lists 20 or so novels to his credit." Unpretentious about his writing so far ("a small, humble and private thing"), Wilson would like most "to describe my own Marquand-type society with Hemingway's power." With his blond, blue-eyed, Ivy League good looks, Wilson leads a quiet life in not quite Marquand-type country (Pound Ridge. N.Y.), has only one major crotchet...
...companies, whose returns are great enough to justify putting up with the problems. Even Middle Easterners with money to invest generally salt it away abroad, or put it in quick-profit, nonproductive ventures. Only the Russians, who love a vacuum, have been willing to step in with easy credit and technical...