Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, if Harvard men really wish to maintain their prestige, they might investigate the nubile lady graduates of Brigham Young U. of Utah, currently setting the pace with 2.45 offspring per graduate reporting. Rating them off their Class of 1924 performance, a Harvard-Brigham Young alliance could conceivably produce 2.10 children, give or take a few percentage points...
...root of some of the strange anomalies which he merely touches in scanning American Catholicism. Were he to investigate "the core of faith" which Catholic liberals cling to "even when they look with repugnance on the autocratic ecclesiastical system imposed upon the people by the priests," he might gain valuable insight into the more important non-political motives of the Church. As it is, his disdain for the hierarchy blinds the balance of his insight so that he never separates the mystic from the mystigogue, or the sacrament from the sacrilege. The result is a book on an important topic...
...students who might entertain the idea of trying to establish contact with the boys taking the exam early this morning in New York will be disappointed. The Columbia grad student who will proctor the exam is under strict orders not to let his charges out of his sight until he has accompanied them to their boat...
...might add that I have condensed this conversation a good deal. But even in its original form, it meant nothing to me. Snappy backs? Godin? Firing line? I made polite murmurs of agreement, just to draw my companion out, to see if he would mention one name or one phrase that I could comprehend. It was useless...
These two cases should be sufficient to explain my attitude. I might add further statements I have made which also resulted in personal indignities: (a) "If you like baseball, why don't you wait until the Yankees get into town?" (b) "What do people find so enthralling about crew races, anyhow...