Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advanced courses looked like a good deal. From what this football player had said, there weren't any facts to learn, easy exams, and somehow you ended with a fabulous knowledge of our heritage. Heritage was the word the guy had used. The description of Humanities 18 sounded promising: "This course attempts to sum up Western culture through the reading of three short French poems. They may be read in translation. Attention will be paid to the philosophical and sociological implications of the reading in the weekly lecture. Enrollment is limited to 600." Satisfied, Vag closed the book and ambled...
...take now?" he asked. Vag smiled, and opened his catalogue at random. "Here's a terrific course in the history of the drama that I think I'll take," he replied. "You read 75 plays, but it's worth your while." The fellow walked away without a word, and Vag, grinning broadly, leafed through the little book until he came to geography. "The topography of Boston Harbor," he read. "A car is desirable, but not..." Vag tossed the catalogue into the gutter and knifed his way through the premature football...
...execution so that a clemency petition could be prepared. A six weeks' stay was granted. Said Ernie: "If I could stand in front of Governor Green and tell him what's in my heart, maybe he can give me a chance to live and spread the word...
...queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
...think they do." At home, he carefully takes his vitamin pills, spends a lot of time baby-sitting with his nine-month-old son, and according to his wife (whom he met at U.C.L.A.), always has his face buried in a paper. Like most ballplayers, he soaks up every word in every newspaper in town that concerns him and his team. His reader reaction: "Some reporters write nice things about me and mean them, and others write nice things and don't mean them. I can always tell...