Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exasperated ex-Storm Trooper Prince Bernhard then wrote a personal letter to Supreme Storm Troop Leader Adolf Hitler and two of the princesses were soon on their way to The Hague. The third sent word that she was "prevented from coming," presumably because the police were still holding her passport. Like all Germans, the two princesses who got through to The Netherlands were forbidden to take out of their country more than 10 marks ($4.02). They were promptly supplied with pocket money by Queen Wilhelmina, and Her Majesty, with motherly solicitude, saw to it that all twelve bridesmaids were supplied...
Harold Wilkie is a determined 46-year-old Madison lawyer. Hour after hour for two days he read and debated the 18,000-word bill of particulars that was to oust the best-known State university president in the land. According to Wilkie. Glenn Frank had miserably bungled or sidestepped vital educational problems in conducting the University, had permitted last spring's squabble between Athletic Director Walter Meanwell and Football Coach Clarence Spears to develop into a "public mess," had neglected his University responsibilities for too frequent lecturing outside Wisconsin, writing daily syndicated newspaper articles which had made...
...competitive civil service examinations, President Conant declared his suspicion of new fields of study, saying that to abandon the old disciplines is to jeopardize "the selective principle in our educational machinery". The issue here he showed to be whether an educated man is one who can do cross word puzzles, or one who has learned how to investigate, study, and draw rational and original conclusions. This distinction is highly important, and one which the student is in danger of over-looking due to the world's apparent disregard for it. Here the superficialities of life must be recognized; the real...
...word has been received as yet from Columbia as to whether the change in date would be acceptable, but it is felt likely that in any event Harvard will send delegates to the meeting. These representatives will be selected at th next meeting of the Council...
Then there are such diversions as the crossword puzzle in the Traveler. The better ones will keep you going for two hours after dinner and what more could you ask. Charles Lamb's pen name was "Elia". The synonym for "Unctuous" is "oily". The word (in cross-word puzzles) for "inflexibility" is "rigid". God help you if they want the name of a town on the Isle of Wight...