Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign language for university students. As far as I know, no proof of this statement has been advanced, and, if a choice were to be made, reading and writing are the aspects of a language which the overwhelming majority of university students have occasion to use and enjoy. . . . It is reasonable to suppose that a grade-school pupil of average memory and unimpaired hearing would derive as much benefit from the Army method as anyone else, and if a grade-school pupil could do it, it's not university work! ARTHUR S. BATES University of Wyoming Laramie...
...Eisenhower, who will quit his chief-of-staff duties on Feb. 15, acted as if he were beginning to enjoy the political rumpus. In Philadelphia last week to lay a wreath on Benjamin Franklin's grave, he was stopped by a man who proudly showed him a "Draft Eisenhower" button in his lapel. The General said: "Take that thing off and throw it away." But he wore his widest grin as he said...
...pulled an A in Elizabethan literature, but he wasn't much of a student. One thing he did enjoy was rowing. His crew was good enough to row at Poughkeepsie; but his career as an oarsman ended abruptly when he hurt his spine...
Yardlings will enjoy a 21-day vacation from their weekly three-hour physical training stint that ends tomorrow. Winter athletic activities will be resumed on Monday, February...
...Yorkers began to enjoy the storm. Debutante parties went on as scheduled; male guests skied to some, lugging boxes containing debs' frocks and fixings. A New Jersey taxi service began a search for horse-drawn pungs; it got none, but inspired hundreds to go around repeating the curious word aloud. Even the disgruntled commuter, once he got within limping distance of home, enjoyed acting like Admiral Byrd...