Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...check the avalanche, control the "verbal diarrhea," "mental exhibitionism," and "itch for advertising" of many medical writers, Sir Robert suggested: 1) "strict birth control in regard to new journals," strict "suppression" of many old ones; 2) tougher editing ("almost everything is too long"). Above all, he said, there should be no publication of "memorial lectures, such as this one. . . . There are surely better ways of remembering the dead than by boring the living...
...That Peary had previously shown himself unreliable by claiming, on Green-TIME, December 4, 1939 land expeditions, discovery of "Peary Channel" and "Crocker Land" which subsequent travelers found were not there at all; that there were many discrepancies in his Pole story, that he contradicted himself many times in verbal testimony...
...criteria for the use of halls exist. If this is so, however, Browder has been excluded without reason. Certainly the Corporation fails to specify any reason--unless by inference it is resting its case on the weak excuse previously advanced by Mr. Greene. In the absence of any verbal justification of the action, the suspicion grows that Browder is a persona non grata to Harvard authorities for more reasons than his passport peccadilloes...
...punch-drunk from the barrage of opinion and heckling which had assailed him ever since the beginning of the European war. The weeks had been telling on him, these hectic weeks out of which erupted the AIL, the Student Union peace poll, verbal battles in the Crimson over neutrality, and peace meetings by the score. Conscientiously Vag had tried to make up his mind about it all, to decide just what stand he should take. But a solution to the problem seemed to be always just beyond his fingertips...
...Administration's "Case" is presented by Ward Hussey '40, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, who urges shifting the ground of the controversy from the level of "verbal brickbats" to a plane of serious and rational consideration in "an atmosphere of cooperation...