Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Informal is hardly the word for it. Precepts often held on the campus lawn, or in the tap room of Nassau Travern. About half of them are successful, depending mainly on the ability of the preceptor and how well the group keeps up with assignments...
...Trustees of the four-year old College of New Jersey voted to purchases a bookcase in 1750. This is the first record in Princeton's annals of any provisions for the printed word. It was just some 198 years later, in June, 1948, that President Dodds set the last few pounds of the 5,200 tons of Foxcraft stone required in the Gothic exterior walls of the 86,000,000,000 Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library...
Somehow or other, the word "Russian" has "unfortunate connotations" these days. At least that's what the University's old Russian Club thinks...
...hero of To Every Man a Penny is a determinedly kindly French cleric. Abbe Gaston's trouble was that he took Christ's teachings literally. In word, thought and deed he kept trying to walk in His steps, and kept getting his shins kicked for his pains. The reader meets him in his Paris parish in 1914 when he is 35 and hopeful, leaves him near-blind, buffeted but beatifically resigned just before Novelist Marshall lets his typewriter cool. In World War I he fights as an infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson...
This on the unimpeachable word of Henry Lamar, who had watched his men falter through two opening losses and a win over a weak Exeter squad without ever seeming to be working together...