Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year President Conant will add another assignment to his load. Out of the classroom since 1933, he has volunteered to guest-lecture in the new general education courses in natural science. His recipe for teaching science to nonscientists: a new type of course dealing with the "tactics and strategy" of science, putting a minimum emphasis on factual knowledge, a maximum on scientific method and historical approach...
...buoy the troops' morale. In each case, the liver was cut from the still-warm bodies, delivered to Matoba's cook, cut into strips and served in sukiyaki. At one gay party, where the cannibal dish was washed down with sake, Tachibana was Matoba's guest. That night, during a U.S. air attack, Matoba boasted that enemy bombs could not hurt him because he had eaten the enemy's flesh...
Married. Christopher G. La Farge, 48, gangling poet-novelist (Hoxsie Sells His Acres, The Sudden Guest), grandson of Artist John, son of Architect C. Grant, brother of Author Oliver; and Violet Amory Loomis, 28; both for the second time; in Marion, Mass...
...Last week he proudly announced the result: after two seasons, extermination. Employes at the park inn and camps never saw a fly all summer, though dining rooms went unscreened, food unguarded. The park's wildlife population was practically unaffected. Total cost for this year: $700, or 1? per guest per week...
Whatever the evening's hostess may think of the accuracy (or propriety) of her guest's report, or citizens in general of Adamic's logic and tendency, Dinner at the White House is sprightly reading in parts. The old ban against quoting the President's most casual remarks without permission is now off in Franklin Roosevelt's case. The result is a kind of super-Winchellian account of White House gossip, undoubtedly the first of many. Sample: at dinner F.D.R. mentioned that ex-King Carol of Rumania wanted to come...