Word: elicit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature was perhaps best manifest in oral examinations. As one student commented, "Many a candidate felt relief, after being subjected to a host of merciless, polished questions, at Kittredge's taking over the exam with his mild kindliness and amazing ability to elicit information from exhausted minds that objected to thinking further." Once a frightened candidate for Honors in English said in reply to one of his questions, "I'm afraid I can't answer; I have not read all of Wordsworth." Kitteredge reassuringly disclosed, "Neither have I. I couldn't be hired to." He always helped the candidate...
...ranks from Harvard or Radcliffe. There of the four stories are by girls visiting Cambridge for the Summer. The other two pieces were products of the Advocate literary board. Better writing is being done at Harvard, but the Advocate seems to lack either the reputation or the initiative to elicit...
...comic opera. Unfortunately, the acting is not always so successful, at least it is not up to the calibre of the singing. In the title roles of the two primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...
Silverstein has been careful to elicit from the refined men in the play aptly elegant deportment and diction. They show a delightful preciosity by pronouncing with a pure s-sound instead of an sh-sound all such words as "appreciate," "profession," "politicians" and "demonstration." And even the word "exquisite" is correctly accented on the first syllable...
...Internal Security subcommittee called her in for more questioning. With advice of counsel, Mary Knowles invoked the First Amendment, refused to answer such questions as: "Did you, or do you, know Herbert Philbrick?" on the further grounds that they pried into her private thoughts and were meant, not to elicit pertinent information, but only to humiliate her. Last fall Mary Knowles was indicted for contempt of Congress...