Word: neat
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Fuller said that good case method instruction is on a nation-wide decline. Although the University emphasizes the reading of many appellate cases, "the school has tried to counteract the mistaken impression that all facts are as neat and coherent as in these prepared cases." The teaching fellowship program enables the student to deal with the "raw" facts as they come into the law office...
Blundell arrived in Kenya 18 years ago as a "farm pupil." During the war he bought the site of his present farm. It was virgin bush. Today it is a trim model farm, with neat contours and terraces, fields of asparagus (canned for export) and sleek Guernsey cattle. Relatively speaking, he is a liberal. That is to say, he thinks the whites should run Kenya with only a junior position for the Indians and the Africans (each of whom outnumber the whites). But at the same time he believes in uplift for the aborigines...
...first big hit was in George Kelly's Craig's Wife. She had fought against taking the part of the frigid, too-neat Harriet Craig, because "I thought it would hurt me as a comedienne." It may have hurt her: six pictures later, she all but missed getting the rich, sharp-tongued comedy part of Sylvia Fowler in Clare Boothe's The Women. Director George Cukor doubted that Ros was comedienne enough for the role. She met the challenge with her usual determination by acting one scene from the script in six different comedy ways. Cukor gave...
...Princeton, N.J., science's Grand Old Man Albert Einstein forsook his comfortable, baggy sweater and slacks and dressed up in a neat grey suit to meet the press for a 74th-birthday conference. To reporters, he patiently explained some of the aspects of his lifelong project: the unified-field theory (an attempt to integrate the phenomena of gravitation, magnetism and electricity into one law). He then recalled a simpler discovery made a long time ago: the moment that decided his future as a scientist. It was, he said, the sight of an ordinary compass at the age of five...
Last month Delaware's Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams exposed an uncommonly neat and nasty device for subsidizing federal jobholders at the expense of the taxpayers. In the Office of Rent Stabilization in 1950, he learned, 53 hand-picked employees had been invited to be "fired" and pick up checks for accumulated leave. Then, immediately, they were rehired for the same old jobs on a temporary basis. Later, all were restored to the permanent rolls with a second bonus for leave earned while on temporary service. The fire-hire racket cost the taxpayers...