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Word: suggest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems. Harkness, recognizing this, had tried to sell Yale officials, headed by President James Rowland Angell, on the ability of the "college" plan to keep the advantages of a small college without destroying the advantages of bigness. But, it is believed, Yale distrusted the experiment and was about to suggest that Harkness give his money for something else...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Harkness Gave Houses as Spur for Yale's 'Colleges' | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...envisaged colleges guided by student senates, which would "advise the Yale Athletic Association regarding allocations, suggest improvements in dining hall diets, and determine hours during which women would be allowed in the colleges...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Harkness Gave Houses as Spur for Yale's 'Colleges' | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

While the Sword was intelligent (in a treasonable way), Captain Midnight combines the spirit of a college quarterback with the sagacity of a Pinkerton operative. Perhaps it is unfair to suggest that a streak of anti-intellectualism runs through this program and its fellows, but the blackest villains are generally smarter than the heroes, and considerably more sophisticated...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Children's Hour: II | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

...wish that you had given us your source of information as to Euripides' intentions. Since his Medea was played by a husky male whose head was encased in the huge mask-apparatus, whose stature was increased by the kothornos, and whose hieratic vestments excluded any suggestion or realism, it is difficult to imagine-except in terms of Salvador Dali-the effect which you suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Miss Handy, as a staff-member of Signature, is at least partly responsible for the material the magazine runs. I suggest that she ponder the paradox of stories being harder to follow than Dick Tracy when they have less substance, which is often the case. And if she can go on from there to make the stories that do have substance as easy to follow as their content allows, instead of the opposite, Signature will become worth reading, and people will begin to buy it. Just the way they buy the funny-papers. Or Hamlet...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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