Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pamphlet, similar to "Rules and Regulations Regarding College Studies" will state policy on distribution of printed matter, publications, rallies, posters, finances, and use of buildings...
Mickey Rooney, who must play to a large following that knows what it wants, reminds one that horsing and hamming can be done with as much skill and power as real acting. His proficient use of his body, in the early fights, is reminiscent of Chaplin or Astaire. In flashes, he plays straight; then and throughout his performance, it is clear that one of the best actors in pictures is wasting his time for lack of roles worthy of him-for example, Studs Lonigan...
Ideas in the Air. The arresting nature of Lancelot Whyte's thought, his curious, almost hypnotic use of language, almost as if he regarded words as mathematical symbols, may give readers something of the sense of wonder that came to the first readers of Emerson. Like Emerson, he releases ideas like a man startling a flock of pigeons into...
...odds are against this; usually the book is just "missing" or is residing in some tutor's quarters. That tutors in residence may take books from the House library for an entire term is certainly an unfortunate, and possibly a vicious, practice. House libraries are primarily for the use of undergraduates; the fact that he lives in a House is not reason enough for a tutor to be allowed to empty shelves of important books for months at a time. Widener is the University's main library; it is here that faculty members should exercise their privileges of rank...
...have a turn; but it is hard to get much done when someone is sitting three chairs away waiting eagerly for the end of the hour. The University should change its policy and assign extra copies of vital books to the Houses where they will be in constant use, instead of keeping the whole horde at Boylston on the Union, where it is subject mostly to afternoon and evening rushes. Besides, that long invigorating walk through the cool and healthful night air is highly over-rated...