Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years he has turned a lot of wheels, held many titles. He has been a dean at the State University of Iowa, wartime head (lieutenant commander) of the Bureau of Naval Personnel's educational services section, and part-time University of Chicago professor. Last week, subject to the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, Harry Truman gave him his biggest title yet: U.S. Commissioner of Education...
There was no literature on the subject, so the doctors duplicated the trouble in three monkeys by cutting the same nerves. Then they worked out an operation on the monkeys that allowed them to eat again in comfort. Ready for the real test, the doctors took part of a muscle from the patient's neck and sewed it to his Adam's apple. This muscle normally helps control the tongue. But it worked; the patient could raise his Adam's apple. It was the first such operation, say the three surgeons, that has ever been performed...
...typical scene of the novel is London in the blackout of 1942; the relations of human beings to each other have become fragmentary, indefinable and constantly subject to shock. To the apartment of attractive Stella Rodney comes a visitor known to her only as Harrison. He tries to argue her into being seduced and fails. He makes fantastic charges about Stella's friend and faithful lover, Captain Robert Kelway, and, for a time, fails to make the fantastic believable...
...merits of Federal Aid to Education was the subject of the debates...
...merits of Federal Aid to Education was the subject of the debates...