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Word: pointedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your editorial says, in effect, that my statement on the Eisler case represents a change in policy from what was done in the case of the New Student. There has been no change in policy or point of view on my part or on the part of the Faculty Committee. It is this Committee, not the Dean, which decides these matters and the Committee has a clear record through its whole existence of protecting the freedom of Harvard student organizations. My statement expressed my personal point of view which I have hold ever since I was old enough to think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Bender Replies | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...this point the pewter vanishes into the mists of time. Through two World Wars and the Great Depression its whereabouts remained a mystery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peregrinating Pewter Comes Back Foaming with Mystery | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...February 4 issue of the West Point "Pointer," published for the inmates of a Southern military college an article about their school, briefing isolated cadets on the life of typical "Joe College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highlights of College's Fun Given Cadets | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...appear not as persons but only names on a page. The meaning of Mrs. Laccy's rummaging through her daughter's packed wardrobe, apparently the crucial incident in the story, is not clear. If the mother is comparing her own marriage with that of her daughter, then the point should be made more forcefully...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...Sumire" is apparently a true account of an occupation officer in Japan. Here again, if the empty beer can, which the officer's Japanese cabin-mate takes as a souvenir, is supposed to symbolize thanks for peace, the point should not be buried in a body of otherwise acceptable straight narrative. Or was the Gook simply impressed with the officer's assertion that everything in America except babies comes from cans...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

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