Word: quainter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. James Gamble Rogers, 80, architect of the old school, whose modern masterwork is Manhattan's enormous Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and whose quainter works include many college buildings (one Rogers building at Yale is Gothic on one side, Georgian on the other); in his Medical Center...
...election of Sir William Beveridge to Parliament (TIME, Nov. 20) constitutes one of time's quainter revenges, for Sir William is Master of the Oxford College that expelled Shelley for advocating the ideas for which Sir William is now honored...
...danger of being thrown out of college because his scholarship was taken away. "Karp" rounded up the money to keep him going. Another time, when "Karp" was giving a night school course in Russian history, he got a badly mangled final exam paper from one of his quainter pupils: a white-haired old school marm. She sent him a post card, admitting that she hadn't done very well, but saying she didn't know why. What could the Professor do? He didn't know: He gave her a C plus...