Word: humped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Party. Such advice if followed would surely vitiate the principle of permanent tenure. it could only increase the already alarming timidity of scholars to make known the fruits of their study, to teach and arrive at the truth as they find it, and to leaven the often smug hump of American complacency. It is insidious enough to deprive pedagogues unjustly of the nation's confidence; to annihilate them by destroying tenure, the foundation of academic freedom, is even worse...
...test concert with local amateurs. It was such a success that the music-loving citizenry decided to found an all-professional orchestra. They set a budget of $30,000 for the first season (1950-51); the bills mounted to $50,000. A large, timely gift helped them over that hump. Then a core of determined symphony enthusiasts set out to broaden the list of contributors...
...Registrars Office should not putter around, paternalistically trying to help students over the academic hump by spacing examinations with a yardstick. It should, however, and has tried conscientiously in the past, to eliminate the worst inconveniences from the schedule. Simple majority rule should be the standard: classes with the greatest number of students should have at least one day of breathing space between them. Such a change this year might irretrievably snafu the IBM machines. But in the future the bulk of the College should have to stumble from exam to exam without a break...
...press greeted the 1947 Arboretum expedition with a flood of publicity and two different writers asked Merrill to "confirm" the following story: A Harvard-trained botanist in the Air Force was flying over the hump during the war when was forced to bail out over China. He landed unconscious, and when he recovered he found he was lying under a Metasequoia--"in other words his training at Harvard was so good that he knew all about the tree before botanists even knew the species," Merrill chuckled yesterday...
With the baseball season just over the midseason hump, the 1952 pennant races had a strangely familiar look. In the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers had pulled 7½ games ahead of the faltering Giants, were racing along at a .728 clip (mainly by winning 38 out of 39 games from the second-division Pirates, Reds and Braves). In the American League, the New York Yankees, despite the loss of Joe DiMaggio and Second Baseman Jerry Coleman (recalled by the Marines), had stretched their lead to 4½ games over the Boston Red Sox. The league leaders at week...