Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper on the "K-effect" as yet unpublished, Miss Pishmish declined to explain the cryptic phrase. Her work here, in the Milton Bureau investigating variable stars was no better defined...
...years went by, and the mother in Cambridge continued to be freer, more adventurous than her daughter in New Haven, and--in Santayana's phrase--to have "a single eye for the truth." Perhaps if Yale had lacked proper respect, she might have lifted her unyielding nose and branded the parent a hussy. The year 1858 underlined the differences in attitude, when six Harvard athletes picked the color which for them represented the tone of their alma mater. The occasion was the Boston City Regatta, at which Harvard deemed it necessary to have some distinctive mark. So the boat club...
Sirs: All thanks to TIME for coining a seven-word phrase which sums up volumes-"The great and screwy State of California" (TIME, Oct. 24, p. 12). Have lived here some time and notice that screwiness is even more of a tourist attraction than scenery or climate. Visitors from the East don't show much interest in Yosemite, the Redwoods or the orange groves, but they fall all over themselves to see evidences of our human phenomena-such as the folks at Aimee's Angelus Temple and on Hollywood Boulevard, the Iowans at Elysian Park, and supporters...
When Dean Matthews characterized the chapel services as unique in their spirit of devotion, he summarized in that phrase the ideal for which Dean Sperry has been striving for many years. Compared with the compulsory chapel that is found in many other colleges, where everything from religion to the disposal of cigarette stubs is Discussed, Harvard's religious organization is certainly superior; but at the same time it is significant that the spirit which Dean Matthews found was as much due to the brilliance of its distinguished visitor as to characteristics inherent in chapel itself...
...McKee, 42, has settled ten budding Manhattan "businessmen" just out of college. They will live there for a year or so, paying $15 a week for board and lodging, and in their spare time do social-service work at St. George's and in Manhattan settlement houses. A phrase-coiner, Rector McKee calls Rainsford House a "clinical laboratory." declares he hopes to attract the "best leadership" arriving in Manhattan every year, to provide it with channels for "significant service...