Word: ese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself down in an easy chair to declaim across the room. Long ago, he had made up his mind what the ideal university should be. He thought Chicago was beginning to show signs of becoming one. "It is not a very good university," he said recently, in typical Hutchins-ese. "It is simply the best there...
...lags a sentence behind the actors when he goes to the English theater ; his mother is Cantonese but he cannot speak Canton ese well enough to get along with Chinese waiters; and he dares not call on the Chi nese Ambassador in London because "He'd probably expect me to speak Mandarin . . . jeepers...
...college teachers are the forgotten men and women of the war. Those of us who feel that the reasons for which we entered the profession are still valid are deter mined to stick it out. . . . We know that China's war is not solely against the Japa ese; it is almost equally against ignorance and poverty, and our battle on the education front will go on long after the last shot is fired at the invader." Professor Lo (University of Chicago, Ph.D.): "When a boy comes to you for guidance . . . when a girl wants your advice . . . when some extracurricular...
Here, in word-saving cable-ese is how our London office sent the news...