Word: inserting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reaction against this educational specialization in American universities, Chicago and Columbia have set up survey courses designed to insert a minimum "common content" into the curriculum, and at St. John's College in Maryland the hundred-best-books course has been instituted. At Harvard the reversion to a curricular common denominator has had only faint beginnings. Two years ago a Student Council committee urged "the restoration of a liberal education at Harvard." Most striking proposal of their lengthy report was the suggestion that five "introductory area courses"--two in the humanities, two in the sciences, and one in the social...
Insurance. Very few policies now outstanding have war clauses; should an insured draftee go to war, be killed, his beneficiaries could collect just as though he died naturally. But if prospective draftees suddenly swamp insurance offices (or the U. S. goes to war), insurance companies will insert war clauses, jump rates. A few insurance companies are already doing so. Should war clauses become commonplace, they may read like the clause of Equitable Life: no payment for 1) death from any cause while in service outside the U. S. (unless in U. S. armed forces); 2) death as a result...
...While piping hot dip in cold honey until completely covered. . . ." When we got hot over the blitzkrieg that swept 13 nations out of sight, the Japs began to pour the cold honey. . . . Every contemptible compromise of principle was proposed so that Japan could: ". . insert entire morsel in mouth and leisurely devour...
Just take a statement like this, and an envelope like this, to any other addressing machine and notice that you must insert them both face down and will have to insert one of them in an awkward manner...
...Gallup Polls-played a new nickel-in-the-slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...