Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faulkner's detective-hero, Gavin Stevens, is a small-town Mississippi lawyer with gritty common sense and a shrewd insight into poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes...
Each year, hundreds of men stop up their brains and fill them with bith of vocabulary and grammar. Then they take Harvard's language requirement examination. If they pass, they pull the stopper and let what they have learned dribble out.
This is not as it should be. Men in this position should be permitted to sidestep the useless rote processes of memorization now needed to pass the minimum language requirement. Elementary language is a field where the philosophy of general education simply does not apply. The forgettability factor is too...
Sunapce residents said early this morning that a plane flying up from the direction of Newport. N.H., had crashed near the top of Bald Mountain. They described the sound of the engine as more like a commercial plane than a light plane. This description might tally with Moses 'plane, the...
The whole incident was hushed up by University police over the weekend, and the New Haven dean's office still won't reveal the names of the students involved.