Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portland's reform mayor, trim, grey Mrs. Dorothy ("I will enforce the law") Lee, was getting unexpected support last week in her drive to clean up Portland. It came from no less a person than Mike Elliott, the beefy, tousle-headed new sheriff of Multnomah County, which surrounds Portland...
...keep his paper. Whether he wants it for future reference, or for sentiment's sake, or for no special reason at all, he has more use for it than the particular Department involved, which can do nothing more valuable with it than donate it to an old-paper drive...
...second thought, maybe the old-paper drive is just the place for Harvard examination papers. That is, to judge by the quality of the writing. The sort of English that characterizes most examinations ought to make even the most hard-bitten English A instructors shriek with shame. The time pressure inherent in the examination system causes a good bit of the poor writing, but at least some of it is due to carelessness. Authors of flagrant examples of careless writing--grotesque grammar, bizarre vocabulary, murky syntax-- should be reported without compunction to the Faculty Committee on the Use of English...
Eight Protestant congregations is the Square area will be asked Sunday to help Protestant displaced persons coming to Cambridge, as the first step in DP drive by the Harvard Square Council of Churches...
Miss Gilbert will describe projects of the Radcliffe NSA chapter, in particular the Tri-Nations Tour which the group is directing this summer. Earlier in the year NSA conducted a "soap and clothes" drive for the Free University of Berlin in coordination with Signature Magazine and sponsored a tea for International Students attending Radcliffe...