Word: q
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second, too few classes are available even in some of the currently offered courses. English Q, Advanced Public Speaking, presents a tragicomic situation which admittedly is the worst. It is limited to fifteen students and offered only in the spring! Assume that future lawyers and the like would only need to polish their skill in an argumentation course which did exist. Then only the future clergymen, teachers, and businessmen would have need of English. It is impossible for this one class to be adequate. Other existing courses could be criticized similarly...
...picture has some real-looking backgrounds, but the goings-on frequently appear spurious. Sample dialogue, as a couple of meteorologists encounter a glamorous Mongol maiden en route: Q. "You made a hit with the girl. How did you do it?" A. "My training as a meteorologist. I can take one look at a girl and tell whether...
...Governor of Guam: Ford Q. (for Quint) Elvidge, 60, Seattle lawyer. When Interior Secretary Douglas McKay asked him whether he would accept the governorship, Elvidge protested that he was not ready to "retire to a South Sea island and sit under a palm tree"; he agreed to take the job only after McKay assured him that it was "a tough assignment." What makes it tough is that the Navy and the civilian administrators are waging a cold war to decide who is going to run the island...
...Philip boasts of the quantity of "Q fever" germs that one of his favorite ticks often contains. The juice of this tick can be diluted 500 billion times and still carry the disease...
...Q. American Tobacco won't like that . . . How about the coffee hour? . . Can they drink coffee at their desks...