Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your windshield which claims that the license plates identify the behavior of the driver. Similarly, it should be help in mind that where your feet trod is a reflection of your conduct. In college or in life one cannot afford to be thoughtless in any sense of the word. In New York's Washington Square--where the Fifth Avenue busses route and non-descripts fill the benches, there is a sign on the grass with an imaginative, although true message. It runs something like this...
...before the Class of 1941 has had time to fall into the pit of indifference, let us say a word about Harvard museums. In brief, they come under four classes, the University Museum, the art museums, the graduate school museums, and the miscellaneous museums...
...whispering of "indifference" into your ear as an evil characteristic must be as trite as the fame of the cry "Reinhardt." Yes, Harvard has such a bacterium. But, like some bacteria, it is not harmful and rather good. Only the word itself is poor; it gives the wrong connotation. For a Harvard man's indifference is not mere disregard of people, studies, football games--although there are cynics in every society, but a thoughtful desire to let the business of others alone, to let each individual dress and act as he pleases. Communists and New Dealers alike are safe...
...world, he holds meetings for people who are interested in learning his mystic way of life and thought, as some 3,000 were this summer at the annual camp meeting he holds at Ommen, Holland, on property given him by a Dutch nobleman. His friends-he dislikes the word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji," an honorific title roughly meaning "Sir Krishna." Last week, looking nearer 20 than 42, with a few streaks of gray in his thick black hair, Krishnaji refreshed himself at "Sarobia" chiefly by playing vigorous, bounding badminton. This week...
...world. Curator of Mammals & Reptiles and general head man at the zoo is Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars. Not the least of many good things to be said about him is that he has written eight books about his work and has seldom foisted on his public an uninteresting word. Dr. Ditmars' friend, William Bridges, is the zoo's gift to Manhattan newspapers. Mr. Bridges is the zoo's Curator of Publications, and it is a dull day when he and the zoo cannot oblige with a good animal interest story. Together Dr. Ditmars and Mr. Bridges wrote...