Word: lesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mystic distrusts all institutions . . . He fears lest the thickness of their walls shall prevent man from hearing when God speaks to him . . . We see why the institution has so often throughout history cried out, in accusation against the mystic : This man is telling the truth concerning eternity, but he is in error concerning time, and it is in time that we have to do our present duty.' . . . But the mystic has often been able to answer: 'Because I have sought the truth in eternity, I alone have had the strength to tell the truth in time...
Even in the big growing centers, potatoes were scarce. In Elizabeth City, N.C., the chamber of commerce worried lest its annual potato festival, scheduled for this week, be spudless. In Baldwin County, Ala., so many trucks were lined up to grab up the first of the spring crop that the police had to be called out. For the spaghetti and macaroni trade, the shortage was the best news in years. Buffalo's Gioia Macaroni Co. reported its sales had doubled in the past three weeks...
...received suspension that year; Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and the University's authorized historian, commented on the incident as follows: "It is clear that the Governing Boards would stand for almost any individual misconduct, but that a concerted effort must be vigorously suppressed lest the students suppose that 'in union there is strength...
...Lest any of the students become complacent about their own lab technique, Professor Fleser always enters the contest--and always wins. This year his elapsed time was two hours and 54 minutes, a new record even for him. As usual, however, he was disqualified from winning on the grounds of "professionalism...
...polemic against an entire policy than it does to criticize specific weaknesses in that policy. For in the latter, you are forced to know in some detail what the present policy is. 2. By disagreeing with him, you force the instructor to bend over backwards in grading your fiction lest he seem to penalize you for merely opposing his view...