Word: leas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today's lineup, Paul Forand, Walt Rawls, Steve Schnelder, and Cliff Thompson will enter the foil event. Dave Kenney, John Livingston, and Bob Scher will take care of the sabre division and Phil Erard, Bill Pierskalia, and Captain Lea Scheror will fill the epee slots...
...before writing him. Among other references I quoted Webster, under WORLD, with the paradigm, "All the world loves a lover," and not "love a lover." I gave him Century, and collective nouns, with "herd" as an example, and of course, Gray, "The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea." Not "wind." I followed with Bartlett's quotations, with 52 instances of "world" followed by "is" and not once with "are." I politely called his attention to the fact that Merriam-Webster is hyphenated and that his new IBM electric typewriter had skipped the hyphen...
Many faculty members consider the precept system the most important single aspect of Princeton education. E. Harris Harbison, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, calls it the "ideal Socratic method in which the student does not learn by having it pounded into him but instead by working out the idea under the fire of his contemporaries." Harbison also emphasized the value of the intimate association of professor and pupil on the basis of fellow-students rather through the artificial system of lectures and recitations. Princeton's faculty is so sold on the precept, says Harbison, that it has become...
...Yankee farm club, four games to one. ¶In Manhattan, the victorious New York Yankees drew record World Series shares of $8,280 apiece. The defeated Dodgers eased their disappointment with checks for $6,178. ¶ At Belmont Park, John S. Phipps's three-year-old colt Level Lea won the $81,350 Jockey Club Gold Cup by six lengths in a slow 3:27 for the two miles. ¶[ In Paris, the U.S. Ryder Cup golf team, conquerors of the British fortnight ago, beat a team of continental pros, twelve matches to three...
...Privilege in these circumstances is not inconsistent with its history. The privilege has its origins in prosecutions for political and religious dissidence. Its sources may be found in the Inquisition of the thirteenth century (Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages) and in the sixteenth century persecution of the Puritans in England (Maguire, Attack of the Common Lawyers on the Oath Ex Office as Administered in the Ecclesiastical Courts in England...