Word: referring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with considerable interest that I read your Feb. 18 article "Ghost Stories." You refer to the "lens-shy ghost" who smashed the photographer's camera as a "poltergeist." That term is usually used to describe ghosts who throw things about. I had some experience with these "unquiet spirits" when I lived in a certain house in Glen Cove, L.I. several years...
...names refer to places where the various types of the disease were first diagnosed...
Although it would be unrealistic to dwell on the tutorial system as it existed in the College of the mid-30's, nothing is a more nostalgic form of conversation. Invariably, Masters refer to the few years when virtually every student had an individual tutor, often a full professor or junior faculty member. But the system had grave difficulties and perhaps insoluble inner-conflicts, which exploded full-force in the face of President Conant...
...lordship found himself on the defensive. Is it not true, asked M.C. Bergen Evans, that "you in England refer to what we call slums as depressed areas? Do you refer to unemployed people as a redundancy of workers? Do you refer to a moving van as a pantechnicon?" All too true, said his lordship, and added sadly that Britain's ratcatchers-"a most admirable set of men"-have decided it would be more dignified to be called rodent operators...
...required 60 days' notice, the company held that it violated the Taft-Hartley Act because the contract had merely been reopened, not terminated. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of the union, but a circuit court overruled NLRB. By ruling that the term "expiration date" can refer to the time when a contract reopens as well as to when it terminates, the Supreme Court cleared away the legal underbrush hampering the spread of long-term contracts with reopener clauses...