Word: tartest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the considered opinion of white-thatched Joel Hildebrand, 75, of the University of California. Hildebrand, a highly respected chemist, is one of the tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges. Last week his horrible example was a 395-page teachers' manual published by the Chicago public-school system and put together by Paul R. Pierce, now a professor of education at Purdue. The manual bears the formidable title Source Materials of the Educational Program...
...competitive temper under the taunts and slurs of his opponents and even some of his teammates. It was the only compromise he ever made on the ball field. And once he had won his particular Gettysburg, he took the snaffle off to become one of the game's tartest-tongued, terriblest-tempered performers...
Wasn't there any limitation at all to a President's action during an emergency? asked one newsman. Well, answered Truman, everyone had better read his history and find out. There were lots of Presidents who could be mentioned. Pressed to name some, the President adopted his tartest professorial tones. Well, he said, there was a gentleman by the name of Jefferson who paid $15 million for the greatest addition to this country that has ever been made. They tried to impeach him for that, said Harry Truman, if he remembered correctly. Then there was a gentleman...