Word: verbalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRST JET TRANSPORTS in the U.S. will be ordered by National Airlines and American Airlines. Though nothing has been signed officially, both lines have given Douglas Aircraft Co. verbal orders for its new 550-m.p.h. DC-8 (TIME, June 20), National for four planes and American for possibly as many as 25 planes, each costing an estimated...
Esty remarked the verbal acceptance of applicants at interviews at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton had cut down the common practice of applying to Amherst as second choice. Since Amherst also gave tentative acceptances to outstanding candidates, multiple applications were out down, and a greater percentage of the college's applicants were interested only in Amherst...
Your editorial entitled "Verbal Vigor" in the April 26 issue of the CRIMSON recognizes an area greatly in need of attention: enlivening and modernizing language teaching at Harvard. I should like to add one suggestion to those in your editorial...
...temptation to shout in order to make an equal impact on the audience. This defect is most noticeable in the performance of Tyrone Power, who plays the deserter. He projects the surface brashness of his character, but most of the other possible shadings of characterization are lost in verbal athletics...
Carl A. Goldman '55, chairman of the Inter-House Dance Committee, last night charged the Glee Club with breaking a verbal agreement when it cancelled the concert it had scheduled for the All-House Weekend...