Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite impossible. "I used to have to do" puts my teeth on edge. Neither "dumb" nor "homework" are in my vocabulary. Gertrude was a brighter pupil than I was, and more often "honorably promoted," that is, without the obligation of final examinations. We did no homework and the word was not in use with us. We studied our lessons in school study hours. If Author Putnam had known better the ways of Oakland public schools in the '80s, he might have invented a yarn less easy to refute...
Avery Brundage, a tough-hided zealot, ignored the attacks and occupied himself with one of his own favorite games-writing a new Olympic definition for the word "amateur." In its final form, it read: ". . . one whose connection with sport is and has been solely for pleasure . . . and to whom sport is nothing more than recreation without financial gain of any kind, direct or indirect...
Everything Hums. The word "solunar" was coined by Knight from the Latin names for sun and moon. Scientists can scoff, but he believes-and several thousand sportsmen who follow his tables will swear-that at certain times of day all nature seems to wake up. Fish bite, ducks and pheasants abound, field dogs are alert and easy to train, and even human beings suddenly feel good for no apparent reason. The solunar tables chart the times of day when everything starts to hum. Says Knight: "We don't know what causes that activity, but it applies to all life...
...Albert Camus, Andre Gide and Edmund Wilson have sold Partisan Review articles for a token $2 a page. Poets T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Karl Shapiro and Robert Lowell were paid $3 a page. Thanks to Publisher-to-be Dowling, Partisan Review will now offer 2½? a word for prose, 50? a line for poetry, beginning with next January's issue. Furthermore, the editors will be able to commission articles, instead of taking whatever comes their...
York tempered his pronouncement with a word or two of archepiscopal caution. For one thing, confiscation of State endowments would deal the Church a grave financial blow. Far worse, Disestablishment "would be regarded, however illegitimately, as the national repudiation of religion." Further, the Archbishop cited what Poet-Essayist T. S. Eliot wrote in The Idea of a Christian Society: "The very act of disestablishment separates [a church] more definitely and irrevocably from the life of the nation than if it had never been established...