Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as difficult statistical reduction of the case histories, appears today under the title "Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up." behavior of the offender and his reaction to different kinds of treatment was explicitly indicated by the charts. As a practical test in the courts, Professor and Mrs. Glueck suggest that every second case appearing before a court be disposed of with the aid of the new prognostic tables, affording a comparison with the records made by offenders treated under present methods...
...Major Quisling," said the London Times last week, "has added a new word to the English language. . . . Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous. Visually it has the supreme merit of beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British mind to be a crooked, uncertain and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the querulous, the quavering of quaking quagmires and quivering quicksands, of quibbles and quarrels, of queasiness, quackery, qualms and quilp...
...average man modern architecture, modern furniture, modern city planning suggest depressing acres of window-pitted, slablike walls, rooms like hospital wards, cubical stacks of identically planned apartments, chairs of undernourished metalwork, "housing" developments that resemble mass-produced jails. He is apt to forget such examples of perfect, modern design as the airplane, the suspension bridge, the ocean liner...
...useless, of course, to deny rumors and to ask for retractions. Once started, the harm is done. May I, however, suggest that the Crimson has editorial responsibility of the same character that any other news organ has. To permit publication of an utterly absurd story of this character can serve no useful purpose. I leave the question of good taste to your own maturer reflections. William Y. Elliott...