Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...M.A.T. program began, in 1937, with 54 students enrolled in the first class. After a slight rise in enrollment the following year, the figures began to decline, until in 1941 only 37 students were participating. "Continued suspicion and ill-will" excited between the Faculties of Education and Arts and Sciences...
When the ceremonies began, the specially rigged loudspeaker system proved to be totally ineffective. For the rest of the evening, the only people who heard anything were the speakers. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, standing in for Chief Justice Earl Warren, who was ill, opened the proceedings. "There are rare and sparkling moments which capture the imagination of an entire people," said he, "and this is one of them." From André Malraux came a graceful and civilized tribute. "Here, then," said he, "is the most famous painting in the world. Mysterious glory, which does not derive from genius alone...
...soft-thinker. An appeaser. A Munich-seeker. A dove. A better-red-than-deader. An ill-concealed unilateralist...
Herbert first came into the Yard through the famous gate inscribed "Enter To Grow In Wisdom" and, ambitious Freshman that he was, determined to grow Harvard wise. He quickly learned the primary lesson that there are smooth and rough, weil-considered and ill-considered ways of saying things. It was rough and offensive not to qualify adjectives. To say, "This book is good," is too direct, too hard on the sensibilities. How much better to say, "This book is quite good," "rather good," or "sort of good." Herbert also discovered the devastating effect of the words "indeed," "thus...
...when Herbert returned to Harvard he learned how ill-considered such sweeping superlatives were. With the evidence always so dense, the number of opinions so diverse, and the ever-present danger of falling into a "value judgment," unequivocal statements were most prudently qualified by "perhaps." Herbert picked up the word from one of his professors who called a certain novel "perhaps one of the five best of the last century, Dickens works only excluded." Herbert immediately wrote his parents: "I will perhaps be a lawyer." Not that his intention to go into law was in any way altered...