Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey-haired man were correct, as such men are apt to be, then Harvard can be a haven for maturity and ofttimes for happiness. For the College, although we rarely admit it to ourselves, is the place to conform. At first glance Harvard seems to be the haven for the individualist, but after some inspection (and introspection) it becomes apparent that undergraduates are trying to be different in the same basic ways...
...Sturgis, Ky. (pop. 2,222), which also saw trouble last year, Publisher Bud Calman of the News reported: "I've been up and down the street these last three days trying to appraise our situation, and I haven't heard one word which would indicate trouble." Said a school official in nearby Clay: "I don't believe we'll have any trouble-but you never can tell...
...Mesta and Singer Ethel Waters came whenever they could. For Perle Mesta this meant some ten visits, "whenever I'm in New York. Billy is a perfectly marvelous man who is doing a great deal of good. I plan to give a dinner for him, though I haven't any firm date yet." Ethel Waters sang in the choir almost every night of the crusade. "I just love to hear the word of God, and I don't get enough of it," she said last week. "Billy's a wonderful child...
...think "Well, that's all we've got time for" is wrong, I would venture a more modest statement: even regarding "got" as perfectly correct and respectable, consideration of the brevity of one's span of life inclines one to observe that most of us simply haven't (omit "got" please) time for such wasteful locutions. I'd rather be wrong than redundant...
...haven't been for years. Let's don our little aprons white...