Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Female emancipation" is Amory's term for the joint education policy of the College and Radcliffe, and the addition to University faculties of women instructors. Amory explains that Harvard authorities frown on the word "coeducation...
Richard Whorf, who plays Richard, gives the impression of an actor with intelligence and talent, and an apparently urgent need to relieve the kidneys. He whirrs through his lines at a speed that soon passes all understanding. Though each word is clearly pronounced, even telegraphed, the audience soon falls exhausted by the wayside while Mr. Whorf races on. The listener does not feel cheated as much as incompetent on his own part. In a few moments of ironic humor, Mr. Whorf is very good...
James A. Lebenthal assembled on a wire recorder a 33,000 word history of the tactics employed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey in gaining his second Republican nomination for the presidency. Lebenthal included the transcribed highlights of the G.O.P. convention in Philadelphia last June...
...assigned him to the Athens embassy as first secretary. After 18 months he returned to London with his standards intact and a sheaf of sketches of what he had seen. The result is a handsomely and pointedly illustrated travel book that will even delight readers to whom the word "Acropolis" recalls nothing but a tiresome, quickly forgotten history lesson...
...Yard Police took steps. They restrained their eager lock-wielders. A hardy student who had continued to plug northward suddenly discovered his trip unobstructed. He quickly spread the word; students streamed up to the new library again; they blinked at the lighting and gaped at the pastel-colored books tacks. And Chief Randall and his faithful group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone...