Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the word coming down from Holyoke House that the blue books of the October Bible, Shakspere, and authors examinations are to be locked in a vault for a year or two and then thrown away, attention is focused on the chaos that rules the University's blue book policy. Both in general courses and in special examinations of this sort, the student is left entirely to the whim of the instructor as to whether he sees his work again or not. For though some teachers are willing to hand back and discuss their students' papers, the average undergraduate...
...story broke in the Traveler last night. University Hall surmised that the metropolitan press had picked up a tip from a Boston insurance broker, since Mr. Lowes' statement forms the first official word on the subject...
...strong in ancient low life but not in ancient man. The "Minnesota Maid&" (TIME, Nov. 25, 1932), first dated at 20,000 years ago and thus a likely prospect for champion U. S. oldster, was later set down by many a scientist as an "intrusion"-a polite word which experts apply to material that does not belong to the geological layer in which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California's anthropology department, pronounced...
...feeble-minded the neurologists have a last, sympathetic word: "In a world which has much low-grade work to be done, there is still room for the people of low-grade mentality of good character...
From three salients of the U. S. liquor business last week came word of new enterprise, new success. Cheerful items from vendors of good cheer: Champagne Guild. Last year only one bottle of champagne was sold for every 40 potential U. S. sippers. Hoping to raise this average at least a bottle a year, leading domestic producers got together last month, formed an American Champagne Guild. Last week, comparing notes, they discovered that champagne sales had already started to rise, were 80% greater this October than in the same month...