Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book in his hand...
Aiken, on the other hand, has expressed opposition to the scientific Utopianism proposed by Skinner. According to Aiken, Skinner's view ". . . leads to the most desperate, grimmest sort of police state imaginable...
...being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to the extremely hard, though evil work, which contemporary anti-Catholics have done . . . The damage they are accomplishing in creating prejudice on the one hand and uneasiness on the other is very considerable indeed...
There were no skyrocket bursts of great, fresh genius, and among the novelists many an old hand had shown a faltering touch. But 1949's books, fiction and nonfiction, accurately and often brilliantly reflected the state of man and his world. They were books colored by personal questioning, confusion and discontent; but also showing through was a determination to express both personal and public dilemmas and to face them firmly. More than in recent years, fiction in 1949 leavened its cynicism with compassion. In a great deal of nonfiction, skepticism was tempered with American optimism: though happiness and order...
...residents will be gratified. A manually operated, "one-arm-bandit" type of orange-juice squeezer will be placed in the Lowell Dining Hall today for breakfasters who find it messy, inconvenient, and irksome to squeeze halved oranges by hand...