Word: devereux
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...gathering hue and cry proclaims that the academic professionals have been subsidizing undergraduates for half a century. Although this theory has received its latest boost from Devereux Josephs' Committee on Education beyond High School, its inventor and leading local proponent is Seymour Harris, who should know better...
Also taking this view, Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, stated that he had "for twelve years" been urging an installment plan for financing education. He said that he had been in correspondence with Devereux C. Josephs...
Each was awarded a Doctor of Laws as were Robert F. Goheen, Princeton president-elect, Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College, Oxford, and Devereux C. Josephs '15, Chairman of the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School...
...escort young lovers through the delicate orthodoxy of England's Edwardian era, G.R.M. Devereux synthesized in Lover's Dictionary a comprehensive language of flowers. Each blossom wafted a specific message (dandelions: "go"), and the manner of handing it to the lady became part of the unspoken word. A flower inclined to his right said, "I love you," to his left, "Thou art radiant with beauty...
Lacking either a Devereux or Edwardian subtlety, youngsters at San Diego high and junior high schools have found a way to be highly explicit. A girl arranges the sword-shaped pins on her cardigan in a variety of patterns: 1) horizontally parallel (come on, she's unattached); 2) parallel, but at an angle (she has a boy friend, but he's not a steady); 3) swords in a V (she's interested in going steady); 4) crossed swords (poison, she's got a steady); and 5) single vertical sword (get lost, she's married...