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...first-rate aphorism is as hard, as clear, and as slowly to be digested, as a diamond; a bad one is more like a cut-rate banana. A. B.'s meditations in this tough form are uneven, carry a literary taint ("the gods," and "Milady"). But a great many are sharply perspicacious, quietly durable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Aphorisms | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...openly boasts athletic scholarships. This follows from the abolition of intercollegiate competition last year and the attempt to set up a vigorous intra-mural system. Trained athletes are necessary to this plan, and St. John's doesn't see why they can't be educated too, now that the taint of big-time sport is removed...

Author: By Blair Clark, | Title: Head of Liberal Education Committee Reviews St. John's College; Describes Working of New Program | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

...Adams wrote that "hardly any college seems free of the taint" of bolshevism; and deploring this "subversive" tendency, she provided that her gift not be used by universities allowing this movement. One-half the estate was to be divided by M. I. T. and by the Harvard Medical School for deserving students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRUST FOR HARVARD FORBIDS TOLERATING OF COMMUNISM | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

...Washington Star, a conservative paper which rarely looks promotion in the face, admired the Post's campaign, made a deal with Publishers Service Inc., a Stern promotion subsidiary to take it over, cleansed completely of its voucher-clipping taint. The Star organized a National Committee for Music Appreciation, plugged the Committee and music in general to the top of its bent, began distributing records last February at $1.39 per set. Distribution to last week: 62,000 sets. And the Star beamed benignly as the Committee offered the album scheme to other papers-always with the stipulation: no coupons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Record Record | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...That investigation has been made, and it has been made through the agency requested by these undergraduates--namely, the Student Council. In a comprehensive report made public last night, the Student Council justified, upheld, and completely absolved Professor Cannon and those who solicited funds for the ambulance of any taint of false pretenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FOUL BLOW AT THE REFEREE | 11/4/1937 | See Source »

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