Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberal education" is a fighting phrase nowadays. "In the current discussions between the Armed Forces and the educators on the conversion of colleges to the war effort we have a vague picture of a group of horn-rimmed but humane deans in a gallant losing struggle against a tight-fisted clique of electronicists. It might help to clarify this picture, and assist both sides, if we had a more definite idea of what liberal education was all about, and what were the values for which it stands...
...greater step to power was taken by a Japanese. From behind his horn-rimmed glasses and the ack-ack of his cigar smoke, Premier Hideki Tojo emerged as a character worthy of his nickname: The Razor. He, like Stalin, was tough. So were his people. He took the major political risk of the year in tackling Britain and. the U.S., and, for the year, it turned out to be a good speculation. His armies conquered Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma. Never in history had one nation conquered so much so quickly. Seldom...
...great pains to repair his reputation. At the exotic Palais d'Eté in Algiers he received correspondents individually and en masse. The Admiral was wearing sharkskin civvies with a white shirt, a brown polka-dot tie and black shoes. His grey-green eyes peered brightly through his horn-rimmed spectacles. Tiny veins threaded his florid cheeks. His grey hair was trimmed close. He sat behind a glass-topped work table in a dusky room hung with maps of Europe and Africa. Said...
...resting place in the Widener Treasure Room, but as "occasional" lyrics skillfully integrating form and subject, they make delightful reading. Ormonde de Kay has contributed "Hopscotch," a pleasantly wistful bit of reminiscence, not inappropriately hidden on the last page. Contrasting sharply, Day Lee's "And Then the Hunter's Horn" demonstrates the unfortunate impact of the works of Robert Frost on the immature poet, unacquainted with the matter and form which make the best of Frost ring true...
Smashed and turned over to the war scrap collection in West Orange, N.J.: a brass and bronze horn built by Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in the mid-'20s to make phonograph recordings. Weight: five tons; length: 125 feet...