Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means exactly what Doheny apparently intended for it to mean: "grandchildren." The Spanish word for "relatives" is parientes-which looks like "parents," but the Spanish word for parents is padres. In Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means "pregnant." Your boner at least "hit the hammer with the nail...
...Harvard and Yale, no longer names to conjure with in football, need not care what people think in New York or Ann Arbor or Palo Alto today. The sixty thousand here in the Bowl won't care, that's for sure; players and coaches too can forget the people outside for two hours this afternoon...
Accent on Accents: There are too many Phi Beta Kappa members in government service, Senator Karl Mundt, South Dakota Republican, told newspaper executives in Chicago. "I shudder to think what the boys with the Harvard accents have cost the country in the last sixteen years," Mundt said, shuddering. Newsweek, October...
...pound football coach to speak at the traditional Thursday parade and "believed he would accept." Hickman is flying to Boston tomorrow evening for a meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association officials committee, he explained. "If Hickman comes, it will be something new," said Liebman. "I don't think Harvard has ever done it before...
Should pension systems be set up for all U.S. industrial workers? Last week, after a survey of 1,000 industrial executives, Mill & Factory magazine reported that 78% of them would go along with some sort of company pension plan. Only 6% think the company should bear the entire cost. As for federal pensions, 89% would rather install company plans than pay for a major expansion of the Government's Social Security program. Growled One Midwest manufacturer: "Our whole system is degenerating to the point where something for nothing is a fad . . . The mad scramble...