Word: versa
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Some make believe they are Napoleon, and some Satan. Other favorite characters are Robespierre, Perseus and Audromeda, and Pelion and Ossa. Sometimes men dress up as women and vice versa. Mardi Gras historians are still chuckling over the time a man won first prize for the "Most beautifully dressed lady...
...little sanity is clearly needed to make football again an amateur college sport," he said. This means, he said, no more recruiting and subsidizing of players, and organization of practice and schedules "so that they fit into academic needs rather than vice versa...
They argued that in some states women were not allowed to serve on juries, or to run a business and keep the profits without their husbands' consent. In some states a husband might get a divorce from an unfaithful wife but not vice versa. In some states women might not handle baggage, mix strong drinks in public places, work in blast furnaces, bowling alleys or shoeshine parlors. It was not a question of whether they wanted to do these things; they just resented the implication of inferiority. The proposed amendment would wipe out all such strictures at one stroke...
Protestants don't like to be considered mission-fodder for Roman Catholics-and vice versa. Last week in Italy, of all places, in Rome's Holy Year, of all times, some U.S. evangelists were hanging on to an embattled beachhead. They were members of the Churches of Christ (loosely affiliated fundamentalist churches with an estimated U.S. membership of 700,000), most of them from Texas...
What Is the Brain? Wiener believes that the human brain resembles a computing machine-and vice versa. Dr. Warren McCulloch, professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, goes further: he says that the brain is actually a computer, and very like computers built...