Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week ago the staff announced that all reading notes must be scrutinized regularly by section men. At the same time, it was announced that any person needing aid in the technique of taking notes would receive it. This was a further extension of the policy contained in the course syllabus. And today the History I staff has published a report on tutoring-school notes, based on a thorough study of all the various cram parlor condensations. The report deals with the misrepresentations and inadequacies of these sources of information...
...easy grace of Joe DiMaggio coasting under a long fly-ball, the same talent of making the tough ones look easy. To him handshaking is not a nuisance but a passionate delight. He knows the first name (and even the children's names) of nearly every person in Kentucky of voting age-not just because it's good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play his own tune on the great harp of an audience. And a harp is what his audience...
...members of some 1,400 groups which gather weekly to hear the debates, fight them out locally later. Most eager of all are the thousands who vie weekly by mail for the 1,600 seats in Manhattan's Town Hall and a chance to heckle the speakers in person. Anxious, too, for a chance at the program are at least two hefty radio sponsors (Chrysler, Metropolitan Life), but NBC's Town Meeting of the Air is not for sale...
...purposes of vagabonding. They are joined to one another in the contrapuntal manner which characterizes a Dos Passos novel. Chronology, in the traditional sense of the word, is distorted; seemingly insignificant details are accentuated and blossom forth in their true colors to capture the imagination of the curious person. It is possible for one to find, in these many types of art now on exhibit, that diversity of kind and opposition of approach which, in the final analysis, truly represents actual life...
Today is the last day on which courses may be changed without liability of the course fee. Petitions must be filed in person at University 2 before 5 o'clock. Extensions will be granted only because of illness...