Word: dean
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Kitchen Talk. The Farm Journal does its energetic best to cultivate its sources. Nine regional editors spend most of their time prowling about farms, Government stations and university "Ag" departments. On a recent trip, Dean Wolf, one of the magazine's three Midwestern editors, stumbled across three major items for his futures list in one day: a tractor rig that on one trip plowed, spread fertilizer, pulled a harrow and spread insecticide; an experiment that took piglets from their mothers by surgery and raised them in disease-free surroundings; and an operating "pig factory" which successfully used new techniques...
Today's dean of British humorists is a 77-year-old U.S. citizen who has lived in America on and off for half a century and now resides permanently at Remsenberg, L.I. The blurb to his new book of ten short stories suggests that "the sound of [his] clicking typewriter keys beats a gentle staccato against the roar of the ocean surf." The volume is recognizable Wodehouse, gently satirical, its barbs wielded with whimsy. But the more remarkable thing about Pelham Grenville Wodehouse in his twilight years is the way the decades of ocean-hopping have scrambled his language...
...latest ten stories from the dean are the same bally old mixtures as before and will be ruddily gulped down by Wodehouse fans. The serious student of English will not fare so well: any page chosen at random will leave him (in the Wodehouse phrase) with the "drawn, haggard look . . . a man wears when one of his drives, intended to go due north, has gone nor'-nor'-east...
...anticipated an inflammatory address, but his conviction, humor, and obvious anxiety to persuade his listeners soon won their support. The Cuban leader's frequently disarming unfamiliarity with English made him turn occasionally to an interpreter, and once he even drew help from a member of the audience. Dean Bundy, who introduced the speaker on behalf of the Law School forum and the University, seemed rather out of place as he shared the elevated platform with the Latin revolutionary and his bearded attendants...
...Dean von Stade termed the proposal a "fine idea," and Carl Kaysen, professor of Economics, found the proposal "reasonably appealing." Kaysen said, however, that other possible programs, like the Bursary Student program at Yale, ought to be considered. He cautioned that "we don't want to go too far with course reduction and throw courses out the window...