Word: pronunciamento
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mailed fist of the law is beginning to cast an ominous shadow over the parking spaces around Harvard Square. If the threatening pronunciamento which was uttered by the blue-coated majesty is to be taken at its face value, there will be many sons of Harvard hailing from distant climes who would be glad of the opportunity of claim the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as their native heath...
Hitherto Professor Rogers has been wont to fortify his thesis by evoking the sanction of tradition. But if in his latest pronunciamento he is parting company with the peripatetic, probably he is just showing his usual contempt for pedestrianism...
...After the War the male members seceded because they felt that male teachers, in general, should receive higher wages than female. Since then, they have met once a year and usually said unpleasant things about female teachers. Last week, therefore, English women schoolteachers listened nervously for a scathing male pronunciamento. They heard several...
...last analysis, Mr. Roberts himself frees the Harvard man from paying any serious attention to his lurid pronunciamento...
...last analysis, Mr. Roberts himself frees the Harvard man from paying any serious attention to his lurid pronunciamento, in which a few good points are so mingled with the numerous bad ones as to show the author was not in a position to distinguish between them. He points out that Harvard men are immune from the literature and motion pictures which take the American undergraduate for their subject. It is all for the best even though the medium is the genial and appreciative Mr. Roberts...