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Word: referring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understood by the U.S. press, last week gave his own estimate of the role of the press in diplomatic relations. Said Acheson at a meeting of the Canadian Club in Ottawa: "We are blessed in this era with a form of diplomatic communication which is faster than instantaneous. I refer to the press, which . . . often precedes the event, and sometimes reliably. Indeed the press rumor or 'leak' has become an almost indispensable adjunct of modern-day diplomacy. Perhaps this is . . . Government austerity designed to reduce cable tolls. In any case, there is no diplomatic interchange . . . not preceded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Indispensable Leak | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...interest in the organization they are heeling, their real purpose for such extra curricular activity being ultimate memberships in a senior society. As President Griswold told the CRIMSON: "Down here we need to start doing things for their own sake, not for what they will lead to." We also refer Mr. May to the Yale News cartoon "To Be or Not to Be" which appeared shortly before Tap Day in 1950. The cartoon showed a mass of scrambling Yale men ascending to a heaven labeled "secret societies" by means of a ladder whose rungs were "Activities ... athletics...fraternities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BESMIRCHED | 11/29/1952 | See Source »

...TIME [Nov. 10] really regards as un healthy the gap between the American intellectuals and the people, it could help reduce that gap by ceasing to refer to intellectuals as "eggheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...admirers in the corps invariably refer to him as a "real, old-fashioned Virginia gentleman." The phrase is trite but true-it is easy to visualize him in the grey of the Confederacy. With his quiet, tidewater accent, he has little of the flamboyancy of such barnacled Marines as Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller, and Graves ("The Big E") Erskine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Sunday Punch | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...made a similar statement in the form of a letter of to The New York Times last spring. The letter itself did not refer to the University, but bore Whatmough's title under his signature...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Linguistics Head Blasts Language Departments | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

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