Word: straightening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant, in a high-minded and far-sighted move, made his first attempt to straighten out the College's rather confused athletic policy in April, 1935. From that point on, he stated, athletics would "be placed on the same basis as the other activities of the University which are largely supported by endowment ... We wish to get away as soon as possible from the vicious connection between football gate receipts and expenditures for the athletic program." At the --same time he announced that, for the sake of economy, seven, minor sports would have to be cut off gradually from University...
...American, the most persistently recurring version of his background is that he was born Harry F. Gerguson in Brooklyn some time before the turn of the century, that he escaped from six successive orphanages, that he was farmed out to various individuals who tried to straighten him out, that he once worked in London, that he often landed in jail after scrapes with the law, that he was by turns a stowaway, a farmer and a movie extra, and that he early assumed the first of a long line of aliases, finally settling, more or less permanently, on Prince Michael...
Some parts of "Homage," conscientiously documentary are not easy reading; Orwell's attempt to straighten out the intricacies of the Spanish political parties the "plague of initials" will be of interest only to historians. The rest however is in the bright brittle Orwell style giving a good portrait of Orwell as well as of his time. Orwell was so peculiar to his age that Lionel Trilling calls him "virtuous". The label is a confirmation of Orwell's diagnosis of a sick world for an age so amazed at virtue is an age when nice guys always finish last...
...tech girl and the P.M. straighten up the studio, collect their varied belongings (the P.M. picking up the records) bid each other good night, and go home to bed. The tech girl is through for the week; but the P.M.'s night will not really be over until about 9:30 the next morning, when she returns the records to Briggs and Briggs...
...long, hard effort against the Dragon of Deweyism, Huckster Adler deserves the fur-lined spittoon. But before he sallies forth again, he should straighten out his armor. His recent encyclopedist tendency, his readiness to defend either side of a contradiction (made out to be a virtue in your article), his over-all intellectual hedgehopping show the same irreverence and inconclusiveness that make the philosophies of William James and John Dewey what they are: anti-wisdoms. Mr. Adler may have provided his own criteria for what he chooses to call "Great Ideas," but he has yet to discover a criterion...