Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above all it is one of the few horror stories in the language that really reaches the bottom of the well of evil...
Features anticipated since the laying of the cornerstone in March, 1948, include a self-service elevator, numerous small social and meeting rooms, modern kitchen facilities, and a quantity of double rooms in addition to the ever-present and else-where (in the Cliffe) super-abundant singles...
...author of "Democracy and Freedom," two editions of "The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization," and "The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization," Professor Mayo's books were widely used in many College and University courses. They comprised one of the first comprehensive studies ever undertaken to determine the effects of a highly industrial society on the individual and groups. Most famous of Professor Mayo's surveys is his treatise on the Western Electric Company's experiments on worker efficiency and phychology in specialized assembly line tasks. This book is a standard text in Social Relations...
Miss Cam, the first woman ever to join the Harvard faculty, was appointed to her full professorship...
Accordingly, the college was dedicated one year after Leland Jr.'s death, in 1885. It was built on the Senator's old horse farm, and the campus has been called "the Farm" ever since. In 1891, David Starr Jordan was appointed its first president, and in October of that year, the College began. From then on, Stanford grew with the West. Jordan quickly made the new school the intellectual center of the West. He led it through the troublesome early years and started its amazingly rapid growth. In 1915, Ray Lyman Wilber became president and completed the job of making...