Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia University. She taught at Manhattan's progressive Dalton Schools, later became the first woman teacher in the history department of New York's City College. She later became an assistant professor at Brooklyn College and last year won a Pulitzer Prize for a scholarly biography, Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow. Last week, at 39, pretty, petite Historian Clapp won Wellesley's top honor: out of 150 candidates, she was chosen the college's eighth president...
...draft may be a forgotten thing for most undergraduates, but for Business and Law School professors it is still very real...
...father of two, Newsman Wechsler has written three books (including a biography of John L. Lewis). His credo for the Post: "It was said long ago that the function of a newspaper is to 'comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.' Too many newspapers have forgotten the words . . . We propose to remember...
...other window, so that more light may come in!" This statement (abbreviated to the more impressive command: "More light!") has become Goethe's epitaph, supposedly expressing his yearning that greater illumination might come to the hearts of men. Somewhere along the road the "little paw" has been nearly forgotten...
...dramatic victory of the Western Powers at Berlin, and in the catastrophic defeats in Asia, Greece's victories and defeats in the war with communism had been all but forgotten by the West. Yet it was in Greece that the U.S. first publicly took a stand in aggressive resistance to the Red tide. Van Fleet holds a vital flank position in the battle between communism and the West. Says he: "This war in Greece is a first-class war of international communism. It's a war of annihilation with no respect for the rules...