Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shirts is moving creakily into the third act. Mr. James has been playing Hitler for three months, and he has sung the second act finale with all the finesse of one who has read deep in "Mein Kampf", which Mr. James has told his supporters is "the greatest human document ever written." But Mr. James's singing is flat, his song trite, and his supporting cast a handful of hams...
Although there is naturally a difference of opinion regarding the practicability of some of the proposals of the Student Council Report on Education--especially the compulsory introductory courses and the specific sanctions for tutorial work--all those who have read the document have been impressed by the skillfulness, clarity, and forcefulness with which the fundamental aims of a liberal education are presented. Also, there seems to be rather general agreement as to the degree of over-specialization that exists, and there are a good many who share the opinion of the Student Council concerning the shortcomings of the recently revised...
...wall, a framed copy of Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell; on the mantel, two ancient lamps and a cane, carved of wood from Borah Peak in Idaho. The secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted to memorize. Thus read, it would join his vast store from the Bible, Shakespeare, Britain's Burke and Fox and Pitt, Massachusetts' Daniel Webster, Emerson, many & many another remembered page...
True to his promise, Investigator Atherton refused to make his findings public, but presented them this year to the annual fence-mending meeting of Conference delegates. His imposing document contained nothing really new to anyone within whiffing distance of any football-minded campus in the land. But along the Pacific, the cumulative effect of this 2,000,000-word arraignment was electric. Because of it, contrite Pacific Conference turned over the most simon-pure set of new leaves in the picaresque annals of U. S. football...
Last week Chairman Dies, ill in Orange, Texas, turned in an initial report that one New Dealer called as vicious a document as he had ever seen. Hurriedly New Dealers Voorhis, et al. rushed into action, supplanted their own toned-down version...