Word: memoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mimi-Memo Method. The linguisti-cians' way of teaching is based on the experiences of the Americanists, students of U.S. Indian tribes, who were forced to learn many a tongue which had no written literature. Ancestor of the group was Columbia's late, great ethnologist Franz ("Papa") Boas. He and his greatest linguistic follower, the late Edward Sapir of Yale, could rattle on in Indian tongues which they learned by listening to red men, making phonetic notes, mimicking, memorizing...
...never thought that people came so low but we heard that some of the officers' memo changes were stolen. And while we are on the subject of publications there is the remark made in class the other day by an exasperated, yet facetious student to the effect: "That item in the Manual doesn't make sense and I think it should be crossed out." On that basis, many items in many publications would fall by the wayside...
...cigarettes over coffee after dinner, gala evenings in town with the inevitable mad rush to beat the 7.45 bell back to Briggs, the frantic borrowing, lending, and devouring of the hall's incredible stock of Pocket Book murder mysteries ("Death in the Dawn" challenges in popularity the latest Memo change) . . . out of all this, dank, drab and insidious, emanates a contagious disease . . . known only to Naval personnel in training . . . billet fever! One may detect the more obvious symptoms at first glance...
Texas-tall, balding, FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly made the obvious observation: "FCC is being tried in the newspapers." He had pretty good proof that the Committee planned it that way: a July 7 memo from the counsel to Cox Committee members outlining the most effective procedure...
...wrapped up in giving hoarse directions and calling attention to the memo on the bulletin board which bore the requested information was this writer, that he forget to reward the questioner in question. Thus, if the aforementioned individual will present himself to the Navy office, a big black cigar, certified to be a true copy, will be presented...