Word: sic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through our files reveals the "little magazines" around the Square have a pretty good critical win-loss record, a better batting average, indeed, than some people feel they should have. Finally Edmunds seems to take great hope in a perhaps-mythical magazine called General Babo's Gazette and Carburator (sic), which has some of the finest unconscious press agents in town. He notes that perhaps General Babo will get a critical panning because of "the inevitable weaknesses of its contents." Can he suggest some more virtuous grounds on which to criticize a magazine...
Your editoral (sic) of December 2, 1958 has aroused so much excitement that you have been named the A......of the year. After reading this article, I can understand why you were ashamed to sign your name to it. I also wonder if you really think friends are made eating lunch or dinner with your roommates...
...small brazier of glowing coals and a handful of flax that the Pope threw upon the fire. Then, as the flax flared up and was gone in a puff of smoke, the master of ceremonies looked into the Pontiff's eyes and intoned the ancient warning: "Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi" (Holy Father, thus passes the glory of the world). In the course of the Mass, an assisting cardinal placed on the Pope's shoulders the pallium, a white wool band symbolizing his authority as Bishop of Rome, and the sacristan performed the grim ritual of tasting...
Marion Almond, chief of the boiler room at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, who says: "As for ingetration [sic'], you can quote me that I am 100% against it. I never let any nigger come close...
Morris had to stick to his beliefs despite Harvard's Lost Generation. The whole thing was a good deal like discovering that yogurt is milk with more bacteria and the Communists are against child-labor. But Morris did survive, and now edits a little magazine. Sic semper tyrannus...