Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff is usually a composite of the student body because people interested in journalism come from all sorts of backgrounds and have all sorts of opinions. But the CRIMSON functions as an Independent undergraduate organization, like the Dramatic Club or the Lampoon or the Young Republican Club. And the phrase "The Official University Dally" does not contradict this status. It means only that announcements and notices appearing In the CRIMSON are official...
Conant gags on the phrase "higher education," with its undemocratic implication that anybody who doesn't go to a university or four-year college is "forever on a lower plane." To rescue the colleges and universities from the student who enrolls only because of this social blackmail, Conant favors local two-year colleges, such as some states-notably California-have already set up. He would authorize them to grant a new degree of B.G.S. (Bachelor of General Studies)-"not a B.A.," says Conant, "but something that sounds just as near like it as you can come." Then, Conant thinks...
...newsmen scanned the executive order on reserve units of the armed forces. When they got to the phrase "proceed without delay ... to organize ... all reserve components," they rushed to their typewriters. At first glance, it looked like an urgent mobilization...
With this succinct phrase, the Young Republican Club last night opened the first of several election contests. They offer a complete biography of Herbert Hoover for the most violent phrase of 12 words or less vilifying the GOP--if they feel it is "applicable to the party." Club officers also promised to turn the winning remark over to the President for use in his forthcoming Boston speech...
...Hearst papers, points of style may be changed between editions by a peremptory wire from the Chief. When Hearst first turned against the New Deal, Hearstlings were ordered to refer to it as the Raw Deal. Some zealous copyreaders even changed the phrase in New Dealers' speeches in praise of the Administration. And when W.R.H. once got mad at Stanford University (it refused to fire a professor he suspected of Communism), and banned its name from his papers, his sport editors went grey trying to fit such substitutes as "Men from Palo Alto" into headlines...