Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Annex French club's request for a charter was tabled until the group presents a written constitution. The organization decided to recharter after the Romance Languages department announced that it was reluctant to form a department club...
...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
Variable Alphabet. It appears, however (by page 320) that after a satiety of bloodshed and moral corruption, "a colossal need arose for truth and justice, for reason and for some form of order out of the chaos." The very alphabet and the multiplication table had become instruments of power politics, and were liable to be changed from one moment to the next. There was a growing longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars...
Paper World. Prior to this happy time, there had been the dismal Age of the Digest (mentioned with good-natured scorn), in which the effort of the intellectuals was to reduce knowledge to capsule form, and in which lectures and articles were turned out in a wild spirit of competition in almost inconceivable numbers, until the emptiness of a world built of paper brought on a collapse...
...Manhattan for the World Series, ex-Sportwriter Westbrook Pegler had lunch with some oldtime sport stars and felt a strange, sentimental feeling taking possession of him. Last week, Pegler told about it in an off-form column without a single word of abuse for anybody: "I felt a little bashful, a little estranged . . . wondering whose feelings I might hurt ... by failing to recognize him on the instant . . . and a little sad, too . . . Unquestionably, the champions are special. There is a style and a look to them. They wear greatness as a habit...