Word: sort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They are sort of engaged--but not to be married. That means that there is joint instruction but not coeducation...
...faces the unpleasant task of writing about people whom he must face across the breakfast table the next day. This puts a premium on the ability to sugarcoat the English language to the point where a three-base error becomes merely a tough break. But even kindness of this sort is not enough to placate your athletes-critics, who constantly stantly try to corrupt your attempts to "Write 'em as you see 'em" by burdening you with their side of the story. This has even been carried to the point where a team-mate of an errant star interceded...
...What sort of a place would Harvard be it if went down this road? It would, I think not require six months to destroy the morale of both our teachers and students, and thereby our usefulness to the country. I think one need do no more than state the necessary implications of what you ask to demonstrate that nothing could be more alien to the principle of free expression that Harvard stands...
...Clark did not meet squarely the original question of Communists as teachers, but he did show eloquently the danger of Mr. Ober's philosophy: ". . . How could an effective 'closer watch' on 'extracurricular activities' be maintained unless the watch extended to conversations and correspondence? . . . What sort of a place would Harvard be if it went down this road? It would . . . not require six months to destroy the morale of both our teachers and students, and therefore our usefulness to the country...
...trying to rescue Sharpy Cullen from the men's room, Richard perished in the fire, too rapidly to round out his life with one last epigram but not rapidly enough to prevent his getting the details of all but his last gasp into the memoirs-presumably by some sort of magic...