Word: whatnots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not recur with such persistance if they were groundless. And, in fact, the courses in elementary French, German, and Spanish are little more than dull for student and instructor alike, a malaise traced to dogged adherence to the rules of grammar. Memorizing the order of verbs, pronouns and whatnot, lists of idioms, and verb forms may be necessary, but there is no need for the zealous stress currently laid on them. This process only dulls what ardor there is for learning, through the language, the culture of other nations...
Blue Faces. Waxell, born a Swede, joined the Russian navy in 1726 and the Bering expedition in 1733, bringing his wife and son along. It took the straggling army of human whatnot (adventurers, scientists, convict laborers, shipwrights, camp followers) almost five slogging years to cross the 4,000 miles of Siberia and join up in Okhotsk. There, in Arctic cold, the expedition built a large base and a small fleet. One squadron sailed south to study Japan; two ships, one of them carrying Bering with Waxell as his second in command, put out into uncharted seas to explore America from...
Habitues of Sunday comic supplements are well aware of Pogo's plight. They know that for week atfer week he has had to listen to a story about Hadle & Gristle, furry godmommas, alligator-shaped princesses and whatnot. They also know that Pago tried to escape yesterday--pleading an appointment in Lapland but that he could not because his interlocutor his shirt to the seat...
...your Feb. 12 story, "Whatnot at Harvard," the incorrect statement is made that "Walter Gropius . . . designed the [Harvard Graduate] center...