Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-five students seems an unusually small number compared to the business which used to be carried on in the Massachusetts Avenue cram emporiums. But the Board of Supervisors does not pretend to do a student's work or spot his exam questions for him. Before November Hours Salmon goes on the assumption that a man can do his own work. Between November and mid-years, be expects his clients to number in the two hundreds...
...would be the result, and the University justifiably frowns on such. Using present loan funds is the method that University Hall has followed most often in aiding financially-dependent three-year students. But it is clear that such a procedure, if extended, would quickly become overloaded, and could not pretend to cover anything-like the entire picture...
...majority was unquestioned. Speaking at Manchester, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said: "We shall take no action to gain a transient popular favor. . . . War is a long-term business. The issue will not be settled by any sudden, brilliant improvisation. Not one of my colleagues in the War Cabinet would pretend that ... we have made no mistakes . . . but we do think that our efforts, and above all our Prime Minister, have merited a measure of your confidence...
This weekend I'm going back up into the Coffin in the Sky and pretend I'm an assistant cheerleader for the Harvards. It takes more than a pack of super-indifferent, super-blase sports staffs to subdue the Future Old Grad...
Warning students to guard their valuables by steering clear of the post-game melee, Bingham argued that roughnecks and "lifters" pretend to assault the goal posts while their fingers steal the silver lining out of Harvard men's pockets...