Word: polysyllabicism
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"Ath." Elisabet used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was...
Said Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University: "I call it the 20th-century World War." Said onetime Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey: "That's a tough one. Let me think a minute. How about Fight to Live?" Letters poured into the White House carrying monosyllabic, polysyllabic, clever, solemn, simple...
Sirs: Years ago, when we were both students at Cornell, the present Chinese Ambassador gave me a simple and unfailing rule for telling our loyal friends from Japanese: Chinese have monosyllabic, Japanese polysyllabic names. This test is far easier than calipers. . . . J. V. DEPORTE New Lebanon Center, N.Y.
In Manhattan last week nearly 1,000 members and guests of the American Orthopsychiatric Association gathered to discuss the grim problems of childhood. "Orthopsychiatry," the scientific study of abnormal behavior, concentrates largely on children. Since it is impossible to explain such polysyllabic notions as therapy or its need to moppets...
The lectures are read straight from the reading assignments--and occasional difficulties with polysyllabic words indicate that the lecturers as well as the lectured come to class pretty much unprepared. Not trained for pedagogical work, most instructors make no effort to add interest or insight to the mass of factual...