Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guide claims to present an accurate picture of student opinion. This claim is not alone explicit; it is implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions...
...position to remind them that such action would permit the North Koreans to get ready for another invasion. The U.S. can and probably will argue for the unification of the Korean Republic-which will mean the destruction of Communist control north of the 38th parallel...
...Well, I guess that disposes of the Giants. I don't think we'll hear much more about them passing us this year." Retorted Giant Manager Leo Durocher, when he heard about it: "So the Dodgers have disposed of the Giants? Nuts to kindly old Burt. Just remind that silver-haired gentleman that we still have eight games to play with the Dodgers...
...prefer cats. During the Depression, their story goes, hosts of U.S. citizens sold their dogs short and bought cats. This may have been an economy measure. But "I cannot help feeling," the Lockridges quote one social commentator, "that, unconsciously at least, they wanted an animal that would not remind them of bond salesmen...
...from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and the plump Bloomsbury hedonist, C.E.M. Joad. All that fidgety Satirist Menen succeeds in doing in his jape is to remind the reader what neat debaters those...