Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible for a man to teach at Harvard more than eight years without being given permanency, or being sent packing while he is still young enough to get another good teaching job. The Committee explicitly stated that the rank of assistant professor should be abolished gradually, with due regard to existing commitments...
...Tyler (Tex.) morning Telegraph, which last month dropped its Johnson column, explained why in an editorial and cartoon (see cut, p. 38). Said the Telegraph: "The General . . . has allowed his personal animosity for President Roosevelt to cause him to oppose every defense measure undertaken by the present administration without regard to fact or expert opinion...
...Undergraduate Committee on Athletics took up the question of the petition at its last meeting, but no vote was taken. But no information could be obtained as to the attitude of the Committee in regard to the suggestion, other than the statement that it had been "considered." It is reported that recommendation by this committee would carry considerable weight with the Corporation...
...Hawaiian Islands, "sampan" does not mean what Noah Webster says it does. In Hawaii, it means a boat owned by an Oriental. Residents of Honolulu, now queasy over the Japanese crisis in the far Pacific, regard the islands' chief sampan nest at the fisherman's wharf, a few miles from the Navy's base at Pearl Harbor, as nothing more than a nest of Japanese spies. Army and Navy men think so too. Many a destroyer commander on patrol before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies...
...woman," into an innocuous boy-meets-girl romance. The verboten questions of social caste and childbirth out of wedlock might have been replaced by sticky sentimentality and irrelevant filler scenes. Ginger Rogers could have devoted her talents to singing and dancing rather than to acting. But, with unusual regard for Morley's novel, the producers of "Kitty Foyle" brought this cross section of a white collar girl's emotions to the screen with almost all its original insight and realism...