Word: whit
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...Australia, constitutional referendums are traditional bearers of woe: only five out of 26 have won popular support in the 72 years since federation. The latest referendum-giving Gough Whit-lam's Labor government control over prices and income, as a means of controlling inflation-was no exception. It was resoundingly defeated, with the incomes question drawing an alltime low yes vote of about...
Note that this statement rests not a whit on any disparagement of I.Q. tests. I merely indicate that I.Q. tests do not necessarily measure innate intelligence, as opposed to intelligence due to all factors, innate and environmental. Further refinement and objectification of these tests might improve their power to measure innate intelligence; but for the time being it is inevitable that they reflect training to some extent, if only because they are given in English to many students who speak Spanish or other foreign languages around the home. As a predictor of achievement in an English-speaking society, such tests...
...Died. Whit Burnett, 73, co-founder and editor of Story magazine; of a heart attack; in Norwalk, Conn. In 1931 Burnett and his first wife, Martha Foley, mimeographed 75 copies of an anthology of short stories written by themselves and friends. The issue drew immediate critical approval. With Burnett as editor and later his second wife, Hallie, as assistant, Story survived 40 years and was first to publish the short stories of William Saroyan, Norman Mailer and Truman Capote...
...Weldon manner, however, is basically deceptive and only partly because Housewife Weldon is also a novelist and a well-known TV writer. The author, for example, has supreme literary confidence. Not a whit daunted by the inevitable comparison between her novel and Mary McCarthy's The Group, she believes Down Among the Women is superior. "Mary McCarthy's girl problems seem to be unrelated to the boring problems of ordinary women," she says. "What I write seems to be the common experience, rooted in children-washing-shopping-cancer-death and all the rest of the messy things women...
...Resolution had never been one of the great charter documents of Western democracy, but it at least initially appeared to be an even-handed directive to all segments of the University community. Following these revisions, the Resolution served exclusively as a blueprint for disciplining unruly students without caring a whit for the political reasons that had prompted their unrest...