Word: dicta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Football & Mumbo Jumbo. There had been time, though, to speak his mind, and some of his dicta on U.S. education had made him a controversial figure. He had called academic freedom "mumbo jumbo," said that "a piece of rubber hose is at times worth ten years of the new [educational] psychology." He had come to Fordham in the days of its great mid '30s football teams, had taken a wartime opportunity to halt football altogether, allowed it to return (in 1946) on only a very chastened scale. Said Gannon: "We want to get [it] off the vaudeville stage...
...detail and every chit of paper involving the artist is of equal value; his Portrait is loaded with pointless details about Picasso's living arrangements, his day-to-day existence and his favorite cafés. But the dull stretches are offset by Picasso's remembered obiter dicta. Samples...
Sixteen minutes later, however, three cab drivers were munching catchupted scramblings in blissful ignorance of legislative dicta. The college men had left disconsolately sharing one unsugared doughnut...
Stillman infirmary, which reported no cases of heat prostration, and a sight of the Charles River bank yesterday afternoon, showed that the College was instinctively responding to the scientific dicta of Emmons...
President Truman made crystal clear last week his devotion to a budget policy which might not please practical politicians, but would be applauded by practical fiscal experts. His dicta: no tax reductions for two years; strict economy in Government spending...