Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Oct. 25, 1937, under "Miscellany" you have an article entitled "Gourmet" and you tell of a Harvard freshman who ate prodigiously. A gourmet is an epicure. The term you wanted is gourmand...
Prall, the subtle theorist of esthetic problems, is evidently irritated beyond endurance by Sorokin's treatment. "In fact," Prall cries out, "Professor Sorokin rejects all art; the term means to him only 'subject matter' ". According to Prall, it would be absurd to accept Professor Sorokin's terms, and "as a guide to the fluctuations (of art) through the centuries a blind man is no help...
That Mrs. McCarthy, whose husband was a Democratic Senator in Landon's Legislature, was not entirely disinterested in producing evidence reflecting discredit on the Landon administration, Kansas was well aware. During her Congressional term, a bitter argument preceded her removal from a park board post to which Mrs. McCarthy felt herself entitled for life. Answer to her charges by Will T. Beck, former member of the State Board of Administration, was that "most of the girls sterilized were sexual perverts, obstreperous, fighters or near degenerates. . . . Parents or guardians . . . were notified. . . . Few appeared to protest." Mr. Beck also produced...
...snapped Dr. Schacht whose term as president of the Reichsbank expires next March...
...Terms of the Chair, endowed by a fund of $100,000, state that "the incumbent is appointed as a full professor for a term of one year" and that he be "chosen without limits of nationality from men of high distinction and preferably, of international reputation...