Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Paris, he became a bigwig at the Scientific Institute of Economic and Social Research, a writer on economics for Léon Blum's Socialist paper, Le Populaire. In 1941 he escaped from occupied France and joined Charles de Gaulle in London. The Free French sent him to wartime Washington where he was the right-hand man of famed Economic Planner Jean Monnet in the French Economic Mission, later headed the French Purchasing Commission. Although a Socialist, Marjolin does not believe in spreading socialism indiscriminately over Europe; he favors letting private enterprise alone where it works well...
...these columns many times, and it deserves to be made again. If there is any educational value at all in the business of taking examinations, a large part of it is lost when a student can not find out what was good and what was poor in his paper...
...that, he ought to be able to keep his paper. Whether he wants it for future reference, or for sentiment's sake, or for no special reason at all, he has more use for it than the particular Department involved, which can do nothing more valuable with it than donate it to an old-paper drive...
...second thought, maybe the old-paper drive is just the place for Harvard examination papers. That is, to judge by the quality of the writing. The sort of English that characterizes most examinations ought to make even the most hard-bitten English A instructors shriek with shame. The time pressure inherent in the examination system causes a good bit of the poor writing, but at least some of it is due to carelessness. Authors of flagrant examples of careless writing--grotesque grammar, bizarre vocabulary, murky syntax-- should be reported without compunction to the Faculty Committee on the Use of English...
Karl Terzaghi, professor of the Practice of Civil Engineering, will receive the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for his work on a paper on shipways at the three day convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers starting tomorrow in New York...