Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present size of around 6,000"). He detests vocational specialization: "When universities take up brewing and call it 'industrial fermentation,' it is time to take another look." He has misgivings about psychology, which has recently been made an Honors school at Oxford, snorts that "economics isn't a science, but a political engine. Many economists simply fit their science to their political ideas." His idea of a college education is closer to Cardinal Newman's: "A University should teach universal knowledge...
...down-to-earth mechanisms within it typifies his outlook. For nation-forming inherently requires planning, he insists with a sideswipe at "the fluffy talk of the last 15 years which had to be sloughed off for the sake of something really important at the core." The jig isn't up: "this way they won't label me a planner and I can get my work done." People got awfully excited about a word. Gaus is a scholar alive with excitement about the thing happening...
Inez v. Andrei. A few minutes later, with 20 written questions still to go, Vishinsky tried to break off. But Hearstling Inez Robb spoke up. Said she: "Isn't the Russian press comparison of Truman to Hitler a sample of intemperate warmongering?" Vishinsky stalled a minute: ". . . I should know the expressions the Soviet press used." Then, firmly: "Anyone who incites a new war is worthy of being compared to Hitler...
...deal to develop Liberia by stimulating trade was a mixture of free-trading idealism and hardheaded business. With an eye on all the backward countries of the world, Stettinius said: "With our technique and know-how, it just isn't necessary for them to live poorly. I would not, personally, be doing this on a purely commercial basis...
...months now, at the drop of a sportswriter's participle, the diminutive Boston University coach has been singing the "Harvard is out of our class" blues. Crimson musical experts feel that he is slightly out of tune. It isn't that Donelli is not a completely honorable citizen-it is just that they feel that he is not above a small tactical exaggeration...