Word: viz
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Your article . . . is interesting but like other such articles, doesn't deal with the jackpot question, viz., would the writer condone or condemn his or her daughter being courted and finally marrying a man of opposite color...
...exception to the rule"--viz., that only married men taught the all-girl sections at Radcliffe. I was married in the summer of 1946, and was assigned my first Gov. 1 section at Radcliffe in the fall. This is not to suggest I wouldn't have enjoyed being "the exception", but to insist for the record that the pleasure was never mine...
Cummings himself wrote: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child? - No, I'd hit her with a brick.' Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement." His typog raphy is also sometimes a cover for irreverences - and occasionally for obscenities...
...Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words by 1952's fall. Until then, risking confusion, the American pilots can spell out messages by using either varia tion - viz., Jig or Juliett...
Thus, by believing that a cardholder should not be allowed to teach does not mean, as Dr. Wolff seems to feel, that President Conant and those who agree with him no longer believe in Mill's theory: viz, that society, when presented with all the possible view-points on a problem will in the long run choose that which is nearest the truth.... Though I do not advocate it, the Marxist theory will still be in existence and will continue to compete with other ideas for public acceptance regardless of whether there are Communist teachers or not; the reason...