Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today is the last day students may pay mid-term bills without incurring the usual $10 fine. All payments are to be made at Lehman Hall before 5 o'clock this afternoon. Final term bills will not be out until late in June, and they will be for board only...
...have a harder time beating Governor Earl Warren, who, though a Republican,"in 1946 ran far out in front on both Republican and Democratic tickets, under California's cross-filing system. Some of Warren's friends said he was still uncertain whether to run for a third term as governor. If he did, Jimmy Roosevelt was obviously banking on an asset which none of Warren's previous opponents had ever boasted-a magic name. Lately Jimmy had been making Sunday-night radio talks, right after Walter Winchell, and had already gotten floods of letters from admirers...
Your spelling [TIME, April 18] of baling wire as "bailing wire" is haywire. Baling wire is commonly known as hay wire and the term "haywire" originates from the fact that when a thing is repaired with baling wire it usually remains haywire-although this was not true of the Pittsburgh Pirates last year ... In any case, "bailing wire" is haywire and baling wire is the true hay wire...
Over the years, the editors met frequently, debated what to do about words of prejudice, such as nigger and kike (nigger got in, with the crisp warning: "A substandard term"). Finally, the most specialized new words went out to consulting experts for definition. One of the new dictionary's "youngest" definitions (written by Historian Hans Kohn of Smith College): iron curtain-"a barrier created by censorship, prohibition of free travel, etc , to isolate Russian-controlled territory from outside contact...
Tomorrow will be the last day for payment of the April term bill without incurring the fine for late payment, Bursar R. V. Perry announced last night. Any student who has not received a bill should immediately procure a duplicate from the Bursar...