Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a professor well-versed in his field. Not so in History and Lit., where (although a great majority of concentrators are honors candiates) most of the tutors are young instructors or graduate students, and where students are often assigned to a tutor with a different special field of interest than their...
Also, the Committee finds difficulty in keeping the tutors it does have. Every year, tutors leave to take more important posts in their own departments. The French, English or German Departments consume their real interest: History and Lit. is merely a rest stop...
...because of this fear of German aggression--the fear that the Germans will seek to regain the land which was ceded to Poland after World War II as a reparation for Russian gains in eastern Poland--that the Poles feel they have at the moment a greater common interest with the Soviet bloc than with the Western powers. The West has repeatedly backed Germany's claim to the disputed territory...
...decadence displayed on the cover of the Registration Issue of the Advocate (a cover strewn with stems, a sword, knife, bottles, brushes, legs, a violin bow, its violin, all complementing a long, angular girl fiddling in a proper literary manner, while the world burns) one finds little of much interest inside the magazine. Other than the happy choice of including no new poems, the editors seem to have made little effort to make the magazine palatable...
...City where his Irish immigrant parents had apprenticed him to a jeweler. He was not an s.o.b.-at least in his biographer's view-but he could cajole the widow and children of a Mexican landowner out of 15,500 acres of grasslands for $300, resell a half interest for $2,000 and call the transaction honest business...