Word: lesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heir presumptive"; 2) Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, 47, "whose affability makes him the most popular of ministers"; 3) Health Minister Paul Martin, 43, "whose . . . eloquence and ambition make him a candidate"; 4) Agriculture Minister James G. Gardiner, 63, "a first-class organizer"; 5) External Affairs Under Secretary Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 49, who "leads all the dark horses by manylengths...
...commercialization" of tutoring vis-a-vis the Athenian gentility of Harvard, I agree that it is indeed fortunate for free education in a free society that university teachers are not paid and so may speak the truth as they see it, not caring a whitney what powers they offend. Lester Cramer...
Opening a Times lecture course for New York City public-school teachers, Sunday Editor Lester Markel denied that Americans are a well-informed people. Judging by the way people answer public opinion polls, he said, "20% of the population belongs in the definitely moronic class; another 20% is ignorant and unwilling to learn; another 40% is ignorant but willing to learn, provided that the lessons are made simple. . . . Informed public opinion in the U.S. depends on a group that consists...
American slang breeds faster than editors can edit or printers can print. The original edition of the mammoth American Thesaurus of Slang (TIME, March 2, 1942) had more than 100,000 words & phrases in it. By the time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...
...Lester Samuels, chief surgeon of a Veterans Administration hospital in Louisiana, had flown to New York City (by special permission of President Truman, to whom the patient had appealed) to perform this emergency operation. (He had halted an attack, three years ago, by cutting her left phrenic nerve.) The cutting stops uncontrollable hiccups by disconnecting the diaphragm from nervous impulses that cause its convulsions...