Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verbal agreement with William J. Hingham '16, Watson had agreed to clear the gymnasium floor by October 20, in time for full fall basketball practice. The University Housing office, to meet the earlier deadline, has been working nights, Watson stated...
Amidst the verbal fireworks, John Santo, who came to the U.S. from Rumania 20 years ago on a four-year student's visa, was almost forgotten. Unlike the Baronet of Ruddigore, who "writhed in agony," handsome, curly-haired Santo mockingly rested his head on one arm and pretended to sleep. Before the prosecution is through, however, his case might become as celebrated as the Government's unsuccessful attempt, two years ago, to deport Harry Bridges...
...Church's pragmatic departure from the orthodoxy of Paul and Augustine that gave the leaders of the Protestant Reformation their main theological ammunition against Rome. This Protestant return to Augustinianism, writes Anglican Hardman, led Rome to make "a verbal compromise which suggested the retention of the full Augustinian position but at the same time allowed for those modifications in the position which had been accepted by the Church...
...logic or his good intentions. Rather he was voicing Russia's unwillingness to weaken her power position. Deplorable, perhaps, but rather inevitable. From 1917 to 1933, actually to 1941, Russia was a pariah nation. Except for her satellites, she stands alone among a U.N. membership that proffers at least verbal homage to the ideology of the western democracies. To Russia the veto power is an indispensable protection against U.N. actions which would be undesirable from the Russian point of view...
...settling nothing-except that they make perfect butts for Peacock's gay, sometimes lethal, satire. Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps...