Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James H Shaw, professor of nutrition, said yesterday the gift was a tremendous boost to research "We've had a very tight spot here for many years because of our very small endowment, and because in recent years the federal money has been so short, he explained...
Saying the African material is vital to the discipline. Black Students Association President Alan C. Shaw '85 said yesterday the current program "is no real curriculum because of (the administration's) attitude...
...Shaw said the Ephraim Isaac Defense Fund, an offshoot of his group, last year raised more than $4000 to help defray Isaac's legal expenses...
...sing of warfare and a man at war." Fitzgerald's version of The Aeneid's first words ("Arma virumque cano") veers sharply away from the traditional reading in English, enshrined in the title of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. Yet singing of arms and the man was not all that Virgil's fellow Romans in the 1st century B.C. would have understood him to mean. They had already been thoroughly schooled on who Aeneas was and what he had, in legend, accomplished; neither his identity nor his military prowess could have been...
...Punctuality is the thief of time"; "Old enough to know worse." But he could be as pontifical as the next prince: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it"; "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." George Bernard Shaw saw the aphorism as the new home for political slogans: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." His contemporary G.K. Chesterton was the last master of the paradox: "Silence is the unbearable repartee"; "A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition"; "Tradition...