Word: saying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve for short terms in reserve units to recruiting and educating active-duty officers on a long-term career basis. This has been done, charged Millett, without the Air Force's defining a new mission for its college R.O.T.C. units. Said he: "It is not unfair to say that the administrations of many colleges and universities sense a lack of interest and concern on the part of the Air Force with the college education program...
...What I have to say today," said the guest speaker, Robert H. Estabrook, 42, editorial page director of the Washington Post and Times Herald, "won't be quite so harmonious as the tunes from the massed Michigan bands." Thus forewarned, the assembled journalism students at the University of Michigan sat back to listen to some exceptionally frank criticism of the U.S. daily press...
...life o' man," sang Bobby Burns, "An' 'twere na for the lasses, 0?" The question is askit o' Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers), a couthie young crofter o' Beigg, by the carlies o' that Scottish isle, an' afore the braw laddie can say tapsalteerie he's awa' to the mainland tae hilch himsel' a wife. He haes his courtin' orders: nae Campbells, nae Catholics, and nae lassies from Erismore Isle. An' he haes the cantie assistance, in a' this clishmaclaver, o' Frank Launder an' Sidney Gilliat...
...Wankel engine is not as efficient as a diesel, but its makers say that its fuel consumption is about the same as the economical Volkswagen. The most extraordinary thing about it is its small size. A 28.6-metric-h.p. model is 8 in. in diameter, 6 in. long, weighs only 22 lbs. The Volkswagen engine has about the same horsepower, but is many times bigger and weighs...
When Editor Herbert Gold polled the writers in this anthology about the special problems of writing in the '505, they responded with heart-quickening uniformity. "I would say," says one, "that the problem of writing fiction in this decade is basically no different from writing in the past." Fortunately, the short stories are a good deal better than the communal preface by their authors. The special atmosphere of the '505 is evoked by a collection whose average of competence is commendably high and whose index of brilliance is somewhat low. It is tempting to moralize that this very...