Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well. To confirm their knowledge, however, and to get the additional facts, they had days of pavement-pounding and questioning to do. Beyond talking to people themselves they went straight to those people who spend most of their time talking to others: ministers, personnel managers, employment agency heads, political ward heelers who punch doorbells the year round, salesmen, bartenders, traffic cops, waitresses, cab drivers, barbers, etc. One correspondent, who has found the method highly productive in the past, went around picking up hitchhikers to get their variegated viewpoint...
...Thirty years of my life," he said, "I have watched disease in the ward being studied more and more thoroughly-if not always more thoughtfully-through the higher power of the microscope." Dr. Ryle thought it was high time to switch to a telescope, to consider man "as a person and a member of a family and of much larger social groups, with his health and sickness intimately bound up with the conditions of his life and work...
Earlier the same year, the Jubilee boosters combined business with pleasure in sponsoring a kissing derby which caught even the Watch and Ward off balance. Clinch totals ran up as high as 26 straight at Wellesley, while one speed demon bussed 15 debs in three minutes at a Brattle Street tea dance...
...translation of the Psalms is being published in the U.S. next week. Modern readers will miss the drums and tramplings of the King James version-but the simple, matter-of-fact English of Britain's witty, whodunit-writing Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (The Psalms, Sheed & Ward, $2) gives some of David's songs a sharp new applicability. Excerpt (Psalm...
While the date of the annual affair is still undecided, it definitely will be held "if members of the class show enough enthusiasm and really get behind it," James Ward '50, chairman of the Union Committee, said...