Word: gilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dated Hopes. Honest Translator Bakshy makes no attempt to gild the mediocrity of his choices, but he holds out some hope for the future of Soviet drama. Says...
Nothing stranger has occurred in the Pacific war than the Tenth Army landings on Okinawa. Soldiers and marines stepped ashore with slightly more opposition than they would have had in maneuvers off the coast of California. To say merely that they were bewildered is to gild the lily of understatement. Where was the withering machine-gun fire? Where were the murderous 320-mm. mortars, the gin. rockets? Where were the fanatic Japs? They were not defending the west coast of Okinawa from north of Kadena southward half way to Naha...
...twelfth century, when the reputation of Abelard was drawing thousands of students to Paris, the masters or teachers of the Liberal Arts there formed a gild or corporation in order to keep up standards and protect their interest. After the candidate had resided a certain number of years, attended the prescribed lectures, and read the required books, he took two read the required books, he took two oral examinations, paid numerous fees, treated the bedels or university officials to drinks, figs, and gloves, and engaged in Latin disputation on the evening before Commencement, which came in early July...
Each accepted candidate was then individually taken into the Masters' gild, "with kiss, ring, and book." The Puritans who founded Harvard left out the kiss and the ring, but until the last century every candidate at Harvard placed his hand on some "book of Artes" as a sign that he was now competent to teach the subjects that he had lately studied...
...into an oral examination by the Board of Overseers. This duty grev highly uncongenial to the Overseers, and was dropped about 1870. But until 1891 the President used to read each candidate's name aloud at Commencement and receive the "placets" of the Overseers a representatives of the Masters' gild...