Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your review of the cinema, The Lost Moment [TIME, Dec 8], based on the adumbrated novel by Henry James, the scribbler (to use the vulgar expression), is sufficient, I think, to suggest the ponderous prose, the-some personages might almost label-circum-locuted prose of Henry, the dear fusspot, James, but, may one reflect, and I do appreciate your unwonted forbearance, that the pages of TIME are not precisely the place-one may relievedly observe-where one expects to encounter . . . the ambiguous, attenuated, ' grayed verbiage, the niceties of the vaporous review mentioned somewhere above...
...personal staff, charities, and matters of that kind . . . but also that he may enjoy a proper degree of independence. The figure of ?10,000 . . . is customary for the younger.son of a king." Sir Stafford doubted that Britons would want to economize on royalty. One might as well, he concluded, suggest dispensing with the royal horses because "they Cost ?15,000 or whatever it is . . . but I venture to think if someone were to say, 'Here is an easy economy, let us do away with all the horses,' the public would be up in arms against the loss...
Objectives. The commission came to a familiar conclusion, but had some strong remedies to suggest. "For the great majority of our boys & girls," the commission said, "the kind and amount of education they can hope to attain depends not on their abilities, but on the family or community to which they happen to be born, or worse still, on the color of their skin or the religion of their parents." The U.S. must have an educational system "in which at no level. . . will a qualified individual in any part of the country encounter an insuperable economic barrier to the attainment...
...would like to suggest," Durant said, "that early rising is not a great hardship, that the Freshman Dining Hall is open at 7:15; that there is no waiting line at that time and that good scholastic work can be done before nine in the morning...
...committees elected separately from slates composed by nominating committees, the latter to be chosen from the Houses and Union officers. "We have tried to prevent appointment to the Union Committee," the Report noted sharply, "from becoming a free ride into the marshalship." Streamlining of the Class Day program would suggest the assumption of Class Day financial burdens by the College in recognition of that institution's opportunity to "kindle a warm College loyalty in the minds of the Alumni of the future." A strong request for the granting of loans from the University to Album boards simply strengthens the general...