Word: interruptive
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...like everyone else and residents could take advantage of the similarity to sneak books out for themselves. Yet, library officials could easily identify the commuters by checking their names with the commuter list. Since there is no congestion at the check-out desks at five, the plan would neither interrupt routine nor require increased personnel...
...from a high school teaching post to the University of Belgrade. In answer to my questions on his profession, he began to praise Tito as "the hero and leader of our people" and methodically continued with a doctrinaire exposition of Marxist economic theory. In spite of my attempts to interrupt his logic, he proved he had swallowed whole the official line. On a more practical level, he explained, "we have introduced an incentive wage for the worker. According to his production, he receives up to forty percent more pay in coupons which he must spend equally with dinars. This...
Claude M. Fuess decided to interrupt his graduate studies at Columbia University to take a job in the English Department at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He meant to stay for only a year, but he stayed for 40, first as a teacher and later as headmaster. Last week, in the course of a mellow autobiography called Independent Schoolmaster (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $5), Claude Fuess told what makes a great teacher, by recalling some of the "Olympians" he has known...
...Hour of 13 (MGM) casts Peter Lawford as a Raffle-ish amateur cracksman who steals both outsize emeralds and ladies' hearts. Lawford has to interrupt these interesting pursuits temporarily when the police suspect him of being the Terror, a nasty fellow who slinks about skewering London bobbies on a three-foot sword. Disguising himself as a bobby, Lawford gives Scotland Yard an invaluable assist in tracking down the Terror, thereby further endearing himself to the police commissioner's beautiful daughter (Dawn Addams), whom he has already captivated with such gems of repartee as: "I think if a jewel...
...Dale Pontius GS '28, who taught here in the University's Government Department during the '30's, was arrested by Chicago police during Senator McCarthy's Monday night speech. He was charged with disorderly conduct for heckling and attempting to interrupt the speaker...