Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no high school graduates being admitted until the fall term and veteran Freshmen expected to be at a minimum, basic courses do not fill much space in the summer catalogue. Elementary language courses will be given, but students in search of science distribution credits will find no elementary courses in the Natural Sciences. In addition, Chemistry Aa has been replaced by Chemistry 2ab, an elementary but intensive course...
Thanks for that nice article on Mr. Gunning, and his fight against unreadable English. . . . Modestly, the article does not mention the readability of your own style. Let me fill that gap. By my formula, TIME is more readable than almost any other printed source of news. For this, I herewith present you a "Readability Oscar"-and almost forgive you all the things you do to the English language...
...although even then a Crimson editorial deplored their "utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life." Today, with their failure to organize small, departmental discussion groups, to encourage more than the occasional forums held in two of the Houses, in short, to fill in the educational holes caused by a threadbare tutorial system, this "utter disregard" has become more basic than the flaw it was in 1938. It is forcing the first regular postwar class applying for admission to the Houses to do so only on the basis of their merits...
...unless he is "protected by lead-lined clothing." Its projected program for the burial of highly radioactive bodies: "Dispose of them summarily by sealing them in caskets . . . lowering the caskets into excavations floored by a copious layer of concrete and then completely surrounding them with more concrete poured to fill the excavations. The graves, of course, would be located in a secluded spot from which the public would forever be barred...
...after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...