Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before 550 sweltering, fan waving undergraduates and their families, President Conant, in the traditional Baccalaureate Sermon counseled the Class of 1949 that the individual today has a greater chance of making his ideas and influence felt than ever before. His talk, given on Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church, marked the opening event of the two hundred and ninety-eighth commencement week...
...Ever since the war, groups which consider academic freedom an elastic commodity have been putting the squeeze on American universities to cleanse their faculties of "radicals" or even "liberal" thinkers. This newspaper recently documented many of these attempts at purification, and last week the chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee requested textbook lists so that he could look for "disloyal" sentiment...
Festivities will last until hunger threatens or the bowl runs dry, which-ever is earlier...
...British Isles and Atlantic Islands, North and South America, southern Africa, Australasia). From 1960 on, Oceania has been ceaselessly at war, sometimes as ally and sometimes as foe, with Eurasia or Eastasia, the only other existing powers. All three of these monolithic superstates have the atom bomb; none ever uses it because continuous, wasteful, indecisive warfare has become economically essential-"to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living...
...austerity and Dachau terrorism. To fall in love is a crime; all passion must be spent on nationalistic fervor and savage hatred of "Emmanuel Goldstein," the Trotzky-like leader of the anti-party underground. All adoration must be devoted to "Big Brother," the Stalinesque dictator whom no one has ever seen, but whose "black-haired, black-mustachio'd" visage, pregnant with "power and mysterious calm," stares from walls in the streets and living rooms. Oceania's ideal citizen is Comrade Ogilvy...