Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clague estimated that there will be about 320,000 college and 1,200,000 high school graduates in search of steady jobs during the next few months. Since college enrollment has been increasing steadily since 1945, there will be more competition this year than ever before for professional and executive jobs, he said...
...baffling feature of the case is that no one in the Bursar's Office had ever heard of the burglary until its perpetrator confessed. In fact, the $100,000 had not even been missed. This looks like poor memory on the purloiner's part, or pretty sloppy bookkeeping...
According to Carnahan, this was the first time students had ever had a say in College admissions. In one of the cases, Bender left the decision entirely up to the Committee...
British exhibitors shrewdly let the critics see both versions. Last week the censored version opened at London's Odeon and broke all attendance records. From the critics it drew more compliments than quibbles. Sample from the Daily Express: ". . . The finest thing Hollywood has ever done . . . When the end came . . . I was crying." But The Snake Pit's finest tribute came in a censor-dictated line in the British foreword: "Remember-all the characters you see on the screen are played by actors and actresses...
Emerson. They have presented the essential facts of Emerson's life, and a good deal of colorful detail, upon which critics and biographers have speculated ever since. Some of the resulting literary studies, of which the work of Van Wyck Brooks is the masterpiece, are among the most engaging criticism in English...