Word: transient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the proposed plan, undergraduates would indicate in September which meal, if any, they desired to take off-board. Those wishing to eat out would be obligated to hold to this commitment throughout the school year, Moskowitz noted. Students would ba allowed, however, to eat at transient board rates whenever they wished to take single meals during their sing-off period...
...Overseers and headed by John Q. Adams, made public its report on the rebellion. Seniors received most of the blame, although they were not considered completely lost souls. "To the senior class is yet reserved the power of exhibiting the honourable example of return from transient error to generous and liberal submission," the report stated...
...Over the years the club has greeted 15,000 students and other transient Chinese entering the U.S. through Seattle and nearby Victoria, B.C. "We saw we were running the country's reception room," says Clinton S. Harley, the owner of a Seattle cemetery. People in China saw it, too. As long ago as 1918, Dr. Hsin Yen, who had been Education Minister in the last days of the Manchu dynasty, noted that "Seattle is becoming a household word for fairness and friendliness...
...contemptuous treatment of the happily married couple, those who have "other interests" to fill their waking hours, admits no such thing as love, the highest ideal of mankind, the only real stability in a world so transient and insecure as is ours, only screaming responsibility. These couples are just too stupid to be other than doggedly faithful. This is certainly most depressing to a young woman seriously contemplating marriage...
Each year a transient group of students, under 100 in number, come to the University to take whatever courses they wish to attend. None of those in the group are working for degrees. They are all past College age and fall into the very limited category known as Special Students. Eight of this year's exclusively male list are graduates of the College fulfilling prerequisites for admission to graduate schools; ten are holders of miscellaneous fellowships, two are Corporation appointees teaching in one faculty while studying in Arts and Sciences; and the remaining four are private scholars...