Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every one of the 32 undergraduate and graduate courses that the Social Relations Department expects to give next Spring, the mimeographed brochure includes tentative reading lists and 100-word summaries of course content straight from the lecturer's months...
Nightclubbing Parisians, who had seen her movies and heard her records, knew something of what to expect. In the midst of France's troubles last week, well-dressed Parisians packed the smart, red-walled Club des Champs Elysées, to see Lena Horne's Continental debut. Word had drifted across the channel of Lena's smashing success in London-and by midnight the atmosphere was electric...
Dean Pollock thought that it was no crime to sometimes split an infinitive, and that a preposition was often a good word to end a sentence with. But, he added, they should "avoid pushing every new or seeming truth we meet to the edge of folly. It is folly to conclude . . . that there are no standards of good usage." The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place. At a football game he had heard a man ridiculed for talking about a "foul" when he meant a "penalty." Said Pollock: "The English language is used...
...Inter-disciplinary" is the word which Clyde M. K. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology and director of the project, uses to describe the nature of the study. It means that the Research Center will undertake an organized and cohesive study of modern Russian institutions. The project will not consist of financial grants for research to individual experts. It will bring individual experts to Cambridge, but they will work within a plan of study. Furthermore, this plan will include study not only of economic and political institutions, but also of sociological, anthropological, and psychological sides of Russian life. The findings...
...millions of words of straight copy -some excellent, some merely ridiculous -were not enough, the press engaged in a few didoes. The Washington Post flew Mrs. Lois Guerrieri, who sent the bride a green taffeta dress and thereby got an invitation to a tea party, to London as its special correspondent. (But it was the New York Herald Tribune's Don Cook who "doctored" her stories. She got homesick, flew home the day before the wedding.) One wire serviceman (U.P.'s Robert Muesel) filed a 2,400-word "past tense" account of the wedding in advance, padded...