Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours in and around their concrete pillboxes, barbed wire and connecting trenches, until they were finally overwhelmed. The Israelis then methodically destroyed every military installation in the area and withdrew before dawn with 30 prisoners. Said a tired, mud-spattered but jubilant Israeli soldier: "We gave them a lesson they won't forget for ages...
Mild-Mannered Dutchman. Among his tough-talking contemporaries, Honus was a quiet competitor. But men who tried to take advantage of him learned a hard lesson. In a game against the high-riding Baltimore Orioles, famed as the roughest of them all, Honus was done out of a triple when the first baseman hit him with his hip, the shortstop forced him to circle wide around second and John McGraw on third had time to tag him in the teeth with the ball. "Are you going to take that?" snarled Honus' manager, Fred Clarke. Honus bided his time...
After that, Tony was through. Now and then he still walloped the ball with authority, but he was learning a valuable lesson: power alone is not enough against the best pros. Pancho-leaner and harder than he ever was during his brief career as a light-hearted amateur tournament traveler-ran Tony right off the court, 6-2, 6-2. It left Promoter Jack Kramer with a real problem : Can Tony learn his trade fast enough to make the tour a success? If not, Big Jake will have to go back in training himself, and Tony's first-tour...
...they ever learn their lesson, it will not be from Arthur Koestler. He has had it. Says Koestler: "This ... is a farewell to arms ... I have said all I had to say on these questions [that have] obsessed me, in various ways, for the best part of a quarter century. Now the errors are atoned for, the bitter passion has burnt itself out; Cassandra has gone hoarse, and is due for a vocational change." As to what the vocational change might be, for a man who is proud that his books have been burned behind him, the reader must guess...
...endowment income has steadily increased. We are relatively considerably poorer than we were thirty years ago and there is, I believe, a significant relationship in the long haul between the quality of education and real per captia endowment income. Adding more students without increasing endowment proportionately would, of course, lesson still further the percapita endowment. It would be possible, by increasing the tuition charge to $2,000 a year, or thereabouts, to make up for shrinking endowment values. This would mean a college made up of the very bright, on scholarships, and the very rich. If there are enough...