Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition to his Summer School and Graduate School posts, Adams is dean of Special Students, Director of the University Extension, and Fulbright Scholarship adviser. No decisions on successors for any of Adams' five posts have yet been made...
This spring, some tipplers got a trifle careless: they started throwing empty bottles out the windows. The administration decided to clean up. First, the university's special police raided a beer party at the Deke house, and the chapter house was ordered closed from June 15 to next February. Then, the cops attended the Sigma Phi spring formal, nabbed ten couples (of the 50 couples at the dance) drinking white wine in the basement...
...include the notion that acne comes from too much or too little sexual activity (acne victims sometimes rush into marriage as a curative measure), too rich blood, venereal diseases, bacterial infections ; that it can be cured by sulphur & molasses or other home remedies, or by medicated soaps, hormone creams, special massages and packs, cleansing creams and oily lotions, kidney or liver pills, tonics, or special herbs...
...Sawyer was optimistic : the gross national output, as he pointed out later in the week, was still running ahead of 1948, there was still a strong demand in many lines, and price supports and unemployment benefits would cushion any decline in incomes. For the steelmakers themselves, Sawyer had a special word of cheer. "The Government," said Sawyer, "never intended to take over the steel business." He added that businessmen should be permitted to run their own enterprises without Government interference; after all, said he, "they know more about business than Government officials...
...himself that is comparable to those of England's Shakespeare and Italy's Dante. An ardent sideline scientist (he discovered that the intermaxillary bone in apes was also present in a rudimentary form in man, and developed a new theory regarding the nature of colors), he took special delight in noting the similarities that related phenomena of the most diverse kinds. When his son, August, showed no particular interest in a literary life, Goethe was no more upset than he had been by the strange ways of mistress Christiane. "In the last analysis," he said, "all sane...