Word: tem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon the debate was dizzily racing off on another tangent. New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges, president pro tem of the Senate, recalled that Bohlen's supporters had said that a three-man committee of venerable career diplomats-Joseph C. Grew, Norman Armour and Hugh Gibson-had recommended Bohlen. He now had definite word that Gibson did no such thing. Within a few minutes, Illinois' Everett Dirksen had something to add: he had left the Senate floor and telephoned Mr. Gibson, who confirmed exactly what Bridges said...
...only a few years ago, in fact, that the Republicans made Rule 22 even more vicious. When the late Arthur Vandenberg was president pro tem of the Senate, an occasion arose when it seemed possible that cloture could be invoked, according to the then prevalent interpretation that two-thirds of the Senators could invoke it. Vandenberg, who was enjoying quite a reputation as a liberal in those post-war days, decided that the rule required the votes of two-thirds of the whole Senate...
Yale survived the paroxysms of the Great Awakening, the fierce evangelical movement that swept through New England in the 1730s and '40s. Then came the American Revolution. The gallant old Reverend Naphtali Daggett, president pro tem ("Would you have me president pro eternitate?"), took down his long fowling piece and opened fire ("You old fool," cried the British, "what are you doing here, firing on His Majesty's soldiers?"). Captain Nathan Hale, '73, was captured and sent to the gallows, and Alumnus David Bushnell devised the first submarine and tried to blow up the enemy fleet...
...term exams and grades might help the College grant credit to a student who is drafted before completion of a half-course. But since students are now usually deferred until the end of a tem or academic year, this "cumulative credit" system is not yet believed necessary...
...prospects of a new magazine are not good. Since 1945, when Pre-Tem, a literary supplement to the Radcliffe News, became independent, Pre-Tem, and Radditudes, later known as Signature, have appeared. With the memory of the $500 paid out of Student Government dues to meet Signature's debts, only four months old, the Student Government is not likely to charter a new magazine without long debate...