Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followed that the Fund ought to be promoting a "Tactical Manual for Beleaguered Professors," which outlined whatever was known about preserving your job while under fire, or perhaps that Robert Hutchins ought to organize an employment agency for purge victims and send defense funds to those in danger...
...text, and has succeeded in exposing two punctuation errors in the Robinson edition. He seeks a job in State U. where old Professor Y, the incumbent Chaucerian, has just died. Now Professor X, having heard through a friend that the position is open, and having discreetly let it be known that he is interested, gets a request for copies of his articles. He dutifully sends them to the department chairman, on whose desk they sit unread, until the appointment is made. Meanwhile, the department chairman is inquiring among his friends at X's university about the young man's research...
...Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, believes that God has taken Stalin to his breast and all is well with the greatest mass murderer the world has ever known [TIME...
...bill seemed as good as law when it went to the desk of Republican Governor George Dewey Clyde, 60, a good Mormon who had never been known to raise his voice loudly about anything. But this time George Clyde spoke up, sent the Sunday closing bill back to the legislature with a surprising, stinging veto message. Reasons for the veto: i) the bill was "inequitable" to small merchants; 2) through it. big merchants were seeking "to regulate competition"; 3) Utah's rich seven-day-a-week copper mines, not specifically exempted from Sunday closing, might be "seriously affected...
...course, many highly worthwhile people do not sport "big names." But, according to Master Taylor, "if a man is not well-known, busy students may ignore him--no matter how valuable he may be--and the visit will be a failure." Occasionally, however, an "informal teacher" (such as Nadia Boulanger, who visited Adams) is a great success. "We try to have visitations, not public lectures," explained Master Brower...