Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acts, Yes Is for a Very Young Man); of cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her emphasis on the sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma of Dada." Her parting shot, on leaving the U.S. in 1935 (with her longtime secretary-companion, Alice B. Toklas): "I won't be sorry to come back when I do come back if I do come back." In France many a G.I. got to know Gertrude Stein...
...Captain-a chemist and a physicist, whose naval duties have left him a lot of time for reading-documented the world's urge for peace by citing a long list of immortals: Descartes ("I think, therefore I am"), Virgil (to whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus, Lucretius, Democritus, Kant, Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Pierre Dubois, l'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Poincaré, Ruy Barbosa and the Baron de Rio Branco (of Brazil), Ralph...
...four years, National League batsmen had been trying to fathom Rip Sewell's pet pitch. Rip called it an ephus ball after an old crap-shooting phrase, ephusiphus-ophus; sportswriters called it a blooper. Whatever its name, it was lobbed up to the plate, fat and inviting, with lots of backspin-and, if hit, usually popped up high in the air to the second-baseman...
Since U.S. occupation troops in Japan are unalterably determined to fraternize, the military authorities began helping them out last week by issuing a phrase book. Sample utility phrases: "You're very pretty" . . . "How about a date?" . . . "Where will I meet you?" And since the sweet sorrow of parting always comes, the book lists no less than 14 ways to say goodbye...
...intricacies of various female minds were probed for a possible explanation of these trends. Typical students interviewed agreed Comparative Literature 65 was "a hard course." This phrase was interpreted to mean the lectures are conducted on a high intellectual plane and reading assignments are relatively long. Proust, Joyce, and Mann have great appeal as modern writers, and the lecturer, Associate Professor Harry T. Levin '33 was termed "impressive...