Word: encomium
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...Pitts, president of all-Negro Miles College, Birmingham (TIME. Nov. g)-LL.D. As one who struggled long and hard to gain an education, and who is now struggling equally hard to bring the benefits of education to those who need it most, you have indeed earned Chaucer's encomium: "And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche...
...price of dinner: $2.50) and free breakfast with champagne, more than 1,200 top-drawer Britons have joined the club, which Tim Holland modestly calls a "gold mine." Last week, after his casino had been running only ten days. Crocky's new master had already earned the Biblical encomium pinned on Fishmonger Crockford in the 19th century: "He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he. hath sent empty away...
...superb encomium to Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas. He did not need a silver spoon to find success; he did it with a $5 Bible and hard, conscientious work. He is doing an excellent job in Washington and we should elect him President...
...that point, the rules of the game changed: a contestant had to spell not only the word her opponent missed, but another one as well. Sandra's opponent, Jean Copeland of the Prescott (Ariz.) Junior High School, knocked off solecism and encomium, while Sandra got mnemonic. Then Sandra spelled cedilla with an "s," and it was only because Jean flubbed papyraceous that Sandra was saved. By word No. 534, Spelling-Bee Director Charles Schneider was wondering whether he would have to declare a draw...
...spate of encomium, Churchill was compared with everything, from an endless cavalry charge to Leonardo da Vinci. As everyone tried his best to rise to the occasion-tempted, no doubt, by a wish to be as eloquent as Winston Churchill himself would have been-the London Economist was at last moved to remark that "Sir Winston Churchill is not dead. He has merely retired from the office of Prime Minister . . . The time has fortunately not yet come to write his obituary...