Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event of an optional contract system, 55% of all Dining Hall patrons will have to pay $14 a week; 35% $12; and 10% $10. From these figures one can readily compute that the management reckons on an average toll of $12.90 a week, or an increase of $6.95 over resent rates...
...charge I resent is contained by implication in your phrase, "the 'What I Did This Summer' themes of English A." The implication amounts to saying that English A invites trivial papers on trivial subjects. This, of course, is directly contrary to the policy which I have done my utmost to urge both upon the instructing staff and, whenever I have had an opportunity, on students in the course. I am responsible for the slogan, "The unforgivable theme is the theme without a subject." It is perfectly true that we usually begin the year with one or more assignments asking...
Grooming John Bull for his first day in Mauretania, Cheke warns him to expect callers and adds, "the president of the Chamber of Commerce . . . would resent being received by a young man wearing ... a bright green pullover." And Third Secretary Bull had best adjust to being familiarly called "John" by embassy colleagues; "after a day or two ... he may return this vulgar compliment...
...possible loss of prestige by the University Theater in repeating HLU films brings in the question of areas of competition. The U.T. regards all foreign language films as excellent material for the HLU but seems to resent all fairly recent English language movies. This attitude of the Theater ignores a basic distinction that exists today in all movies. Two categories have become evident-the Hollywood type and the literary type. The former is generally considered more lucrative, and the U.T. has found its widest regular audience with this kind of movie. Even the U.T.'s revival days have lately been...
...married a redheaded, 19-year-old white girl named Florence Hammond, whom he had met while she was selling popcorn at a local movie house. Florence's family were semiliterate Virginia dirt farmers. At first they welcomed Clark. But after a while his mother-in-law began to resent him-she still wanted Florence tied to her apron strings...