Word: utterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year the city of Ames had a local campaign of its own, headed by Dr. Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College. Ames sprayed and scrubbed itself into almost utter flylessness. In the stores, the hanging ribbons of flypaper, usually black with entangled prey, remained naked all summer, or were thrown away...
...Houses had attempted some constructive program of their own to substitute for formal tutorial, this situation would not exist. In the thirties, with the tutorial system flourishing, there was little for the Houses to do, although even then a Crimson editorial deplored their "utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life." Today, with their failure to organize small, departmental discussion groups, to encourage more than the occasional forums held in two of the Houses, in short, to fill in the educational holes caused by a threadbare tutorial system, this "utter disregard" has become more basic...
Going It Alone. Up to now, despite utter failure of negotiations a year ago, the U.S. had clung to the hope that Russia would carry out its moral obligation to junk the steel wall across Korea and set up an overall provisional government under a five-year trusteeship. But now, said Hilldring, "we are forced to go it alone. . . . We must take independent action in our zone pending unification...
...beyond the reach of the world's hungry hordes"). Another, Bhaduri Mahasaya ("The Levitating Saint"), often hung in the air, meditating without visible means of support. Another, called Krishnananda, shared his hermitage with a lioness, which he had taught to appreciate a strictly vegetarian diet and to utter the mystical word "Aum" (meaning "cosmic vibratory power") "in a deep, attractive growl...
...true that the words "under Hitler things were better" can be heard on every street in Germany, but that is no indication of Nazi-mindedness-it is a human and inevitable harking back to times when things were better (in a material sense). The future is an utter blank. To escape into the past is the only way out. Were the occupation forces to withdraw, a demagogue might find fruitful soil, as Adolf Hitler did 20 years ago. Given a leader, the Germans would again follow, as they have followed before. But today they have no leadership whatever...