Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Higher Learning. In Olympia, Wash., St. Martin's College devoted its regular weekly science seminar to a new subject: "The mathematical analysis of a crap game...
...reading TIME at the local library, liked it, and became a subscriber. A tall, handsome, grey-haired woman, whose husband is deputy sheriff, Mrs. Smith told Wylie that she turns to Science and Medicine first -partly because her son, who is away at school, is particularly interested in those subjects. Then she reads National Affairs, and so on through each issue. "You can't keep up with what's going on today without TIME," she said. "I can read things like People and 'Manners & Morals' while I'm stirring a pudding. Then...
...have lost the confidence of the people. We are the subject of ridicule on every street corner. We are the laughing stock, because we didn't fight. If we endorse that campaign, the party will just evaporate from any position of importance in this country...
...week starting Friday, Feb. 4. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
Love That Scrubwoman! Conan Doyle was born (1859) in Edinburgh, the son of a frustrated painter who scraped a poor living in the civil service. Almost from the time he could toddle, the brawny boy was steeped in the favorite subject of Britain's poorer gentlefolk-the ancient and glorious past of the withered family tree. Impoverished Father Doyle claimed a relationship with the ducal house of Brittany. Little Arthur spent many of his juvenile hours memorizing the family coats-of-arms, while his plucky mama briskly scrubbed the floor and called out knightly maxims: "Fearless to the strong...