Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realizing that getting the word from the horse's mouth is fairly impossible these days, that the financial situation could be better, and that the race for knowledge might be easier were it the "breakfast table education" of old, the former soldiers, sailors, and marines--without running into any Pollyannaisms consider themselves pretty fortunate. They're making the best of the present and are hopeful for the future. But dropping the past has been a little difficult, a stoutish ex-Wac confided. "I guess I've grown out of this khaki girdle...
Hotels and lodging houses within a 50-mile radius received bulletins from Christy's office in this morning's mail with a full description of the vanished Freshman, but not word has been heard as yet from the alerted room clerks. Equally unproductive have been river-bank and harbor draggings in the Boston Basin...
...word 'World Capital' is nothing but ambiguity . . . bloated with false deductions. . . . Confronting such a menace, the inhabitants of Connecticut, terror-stricken, took the bit between their teeth and flatly voted against the invasion of their domain. ... If the word 'Headquarters' brings to mind 'LIFE,' 'World Capital' brings to mind 'ACADEMISM.' And here we come to ... the very basis of the debate: ACADEMISM OR LIFE...
Gradual reduction of the causes behind these fears, then, is the United Nations prime job. world disarmament, for example, even with inspection safeguards, is no ultimate end in itself, for recent history has shown that nations can change their minds or break their word. But weapons reduction is good, nevertheless for nationalist fears and doubts are chiseled down, and something closer to an ultimate end--a world police force to replace all national armies--is brought a niche nearer in history. Similarly, any agreements on economic, political, and social levels accomplished by hard work lessons the need to fall back...
That ugly word "up", which the Harvard team isn't supposed to the this week, has been an almost endless topic of discussion for Boston sports writers. Observers close to the squad are of the belief that, while not at the high emotional pitch reached for the Holy Cross game--a tension that will not return until Yale week--the Varsity is fully aware of the power latent in the Rutgers attack, and is far from complacent...