Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...animal cunning, there is nothing that beats the "infra-supra ploy." You know that something is true, and you know the professor knows it is true, but you'll be hanged if you know why. So you launch into a scholarly essay on the subject. The first time you reach the point in question, you state the correct conclusion and in parenthesis say "infra" i.e. this will be proved later. Next comes eight or nine pages of malarkey--ponderous, confusing, perhaps even relevant in spots. Then you reach the conclusion, in which you restate the known "correct position" and write...
...latest letter on last Thursday's disturbance to reach the CRIMSON offices, a Cambridge nurse who wishes her name to be withheld for fear of "reprisals" writes that "the whole thing was a personal attack on Harvard...
...here. His item merely stated that the poet and essayist was in this country and would be present at "his Harvard reunion." University officials last night claimed no knowledge of the approach of the poet, saying that so far as they knew he was still in England. Attempts to reach either Lyons or Eliot to determine the poet's itinerary were unsuccessful...
...rated soap operas reach audiences of 4,000,000, frequently rank in popularity with such audience-pullers as Groucho...
...original-is Dr. Karandash, an old Ukrainian radical who had escaped from Russia years before. Picked up by the Nazis in Prague, he decides to return to Kharkov and collaborate. His hope is an independent Ukraine. Too late, Karandash realizes that he has fooled himself. When he tries to reach the Communist underground, it betrays him to his Nazi bosses...