Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During a crisis, professors and students usually devote more time to their regular courses and less to the extras of which the House system is one. After World War II, the Houses were too crowded to permit the breakfast table education that President Lowell had in mind when the system...
Childress' problem is whether to stay where he is and marry his French mistress, or go home and patch things up with his former wife, Mollie. On the scene descends Mollie herself, breathing high-powered charm and making a distressing show of her lack of sensitivity and moral cultivation...
Clarence ("Union Now") Streit sailed for Europe, his first trip abroad in twelve years. It was as a New York Times correspondent in Geneva, watching the futility of the League of Nations, that he determined to devote his life to crusading for a more fundamental union of free peoples.
And yet can the Anderson Bridge be expected to carry its daily load in the same honest way that it did in olden times? Can it stand firm in the knowledge that a new, younger structure is trying to take its place? How ironical its dedication now seems: "May this...
Then John L. Lewis appeared before the board. "Why do we need to freeze prices now, and why freeze wages now?" he demanded. The U.S., said Lewis, could devote 25% of its capacity to rearmament and "do that job in its stride. Our capacity is 50% greater than in 1939...