Word: profs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arrival in Babylon. "Never once did I feel like a stranger. Most New Yorkers speak as bad English as I do. They all understood me perfectly well. I tell the customs man I am a Brazilian professor proceeding to Vassar. One said to me: 'O.K., Prof. Got any Brazilian stamps?' I gave him some. He did not look at my baggage. They have a high opinion of professors in America...
Although many of us remain opposed to the inadequate and self-defeating Truman doctrine, it is unfortunate for us to see it twisted by Prof. Matthiessen as to appear the most important contributing factor to Masaryk's suicide. I am sure Masaryk had far less confidence in the "broad representation" manifest in this new "democracy" than has Matthiessen, or else Masaryk need not have died to protest...
...delegate, Harvard's sharp-witted Prof. Zechariah H. Chafee Jr., a member of the Commission on Freedom of the Press and author of a two-volume study of the press, waited 40 minutes for Lomakin to talk himself out. Then Chafee slyly quoted from a State Department document detailing the Russian-Nazi plan to gobble Poland in 1939. "To agree to kill a nation," asked Chafee calmly, "does not that constitute real imperialism...
...Saul Fischbein) is one of those harmless, agitated, anxious-to-please little comedies that loom big only in their blundering. It concerns a bunch of former G.I.s who can't get into a jerkwater college because they cannot find a place to live. They high-pressure a kindly prof into letting them make a flophouse of his living room; but a big-shot trustee gets mad at the idea. Then they soft-soap a racketeer into turning a building he has leased into a dormitory instead of a dive. But the trustee only gets madder. It takes...
...Yale offense will be solved by Prof. Harlow, if at all, only by the use of eleven ringers, each of whom is carrying a concealed weapon. . . IIf he is a genius, he now has a glittering opportunity to prove it, for otherwise Yale will sit down and eat Harvard one by one." November...