Word: rememberable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ TIME's source was a responsible Pasadena newsman. Astronomer Hubble himself does not remember whether he made the statement or not, "rather doubts" that he did because he is not a swearing man. "I may not have made the remark on this particular occasion," he adds, "but I...
Commented Author Kay last week: "Most college graduates, I suppose, remember their classmates as being all kinds: bright and not-so-bright, conscientious and lazy, rich & poor, cynical and idealistic, sophisticated and naive. But we have discovered in this survey that college graduates are actually a surprisingly homogeneous group."
He began a mail campaign to his friends urging them to join a new secret society-"the Society of Aaron and Hur." There are no dues, meetings or committees. Members are asked to look up the 17th chapter of Exodus, then do their best to play Aaron and Hur to...
The Quakers established women as the spiritual equals of men. The Puritan conception of companionship and "tender respectiveness" set a new standard for Christian marriage. Wrote William Penn to his wife, as he was about to depart for Pennsylvania: "My dear wife, remember thou wast the love of my youth...
Distasteful Duty. "By whom will the public services be manned? By mediocrity and by hacks? Or by our very ablest citizens? I say it must be the latter . . . We all remember . . . that in the early years of the republic, full-time public service, though at least as distasteful as today...