Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Old Men of Harvard, George Lyman Kittredge, John Livingston Lowes, Charles Townsend Copeland and Irving Babbitt, had been on the intellectual scene so long by the twenties that legends had grown up around each one of them. Into this sacrosanct atmosphere one fall came storming a brash, rebellious youngster fresh from a Minnespolis high school, who proceeded to impress many of these men almost as much as they impressed him, and to embark on a career which was already becoming legend before be had graduated. In his sophomore year be submitted a course essay on "Romantic Hellenism" to Irving...
Having once made this unjustified assumption about "the only way to deal with the problem," the overseers proceed to increase the confusion by making a lot of little mistakes. They astutely point out that there is nothing inherently "sacrosanct" about the present size of the college at 4,500. This observation is well taken, but it hardly proves that the University should expand, any more than it proves it should contract. Actually the college's present facilities just barely accommodate the present enrollment; buildings, professors, and supplies are probably as "sanctifying" reasons as it is possible to find for remaining...
...undergraduates have left the College since parietal rules were last an issue, and by the time today's juniors and seniors have graduated no student will ever think that the hours of 4 to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 1 to 8 p.m. on home football Saturdays are not sacrosanct. The Masters can hardly wait...
...Soviet Embassy mansion on London's Kensington Palace Gardens, known locally as "Millionaires' Row," Russia and Japan last week began their first high-level talks since the war. Russian Ambassador Yakov Malik, usually scowly, invited photographers into the Embassy's sacrosanct conference room and smilingly offered a cigarette to the Japanese Ambassador, Shunichi Matsumoto. The Japanese diplomat, who does not smoke, accepted the cigarette and beamed. "Very congenial," said Matsumoto afterwards. "The atmosphere is very warm...
What Is Sacrament? Not to be fobbed off by such compliments to womanhood, retired High Court Judge N. C. Chatterjee argued that the old Hindu marriage was sacramental and therefore "sacrosanct and inviolable." Countered Nehru: "What is sacrament? Is it sacrament for man and wife to hate each other and beat each other, making life hell for each other, and continue throughout life in that condition...