Word: demerits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a gale blows up and the course is soggy with rain, the grim men who play big-time golf are apt to mutter: "It's a Demaret day." Like a mud-running race horse, Jimmy Demaret (pronounced demerit) always seems to do his best when conditions are worst...
...vociferous alumni element has recently been proposing, in the pages of the Alumni Bulletin, that the School be converted to Humanism--faith in man substituted for faith in God. Aside from theoretical merit or demerit of such a proposal, it is legally blocked by the School's constitution, which definitely specifies that the School be undenominational...
...overcome Franklin Roosevelt's lead in California? If so, it would be a major political achievement. But however well the speech was aimed at the Ham 'n Eggers in Southern California, at the Coliseum it was a total flop. The newsmen wrote it down as another demerit for Dewey...
Pointers on drill, demerit systems, and the organization of regiment, battalion, and battery, are all taken up in the book and should prove especially helpful to new students entering the course...
Since U.S. dairy cattle give down more than 100,000,000,000 pounds of milk a year, the U.S. has plenty of milk. But ice cream -childhood's caviar, poor man's pheasant, fat lady's tempter -has the demerit of needing sugar as well as milk. There was no sign last week, however, that ice-cream output would be seriously curtailed. It just won't be so fancy. Although some big, inventive ice-cream makers have been turning out a total of 28 flavors, ten seemed plenty...