Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland, Dirksen and Bridges wanted none of it. Facing defeat on the floor, the trio outflanked Kennedy & Co. by marching to the White House. If the Administration persisted in endorsing the Kennedy amendment, they warned, they would retaliate by slashing foreign aid funds. Retreating halfway, the President let word get out that he liked the principle of the Kennedy amendment, but was leaving it up to the Senate to decide whether to tack it on to the foreign aid bill or defer it for later action. Was he sure that this was where he wanted to stand? asked a White...
...Britons have fondly stuck to the early English spelling of the word: "covent...
Scarsdale, furthermore, acquaints all seniors with the necessary techniques for writing a comparatively long research paper, from 1500 to 5000 words. The "source theme" is the big academic adventure (or bane, depending upon one's out look) of the senior year. In this six-week project, students leaf through a couple of dozen books and scribble a gross of note cards in an involved process which a Harvard student goes through only with his honors thesis. Unfortunately complication and not critical analysis of a subject is stressed, but the practise does provide a valuable preview of research methods. With...
...visitors attempted to speak to the students in Latin, but were unable to understand a word. They departed, believing Harvard undergraduates were illiterate...
...students will remember him," the CRIMSON noted, "for the human quality which he never sacrificed for pedagogical catch-word or scholastic obscurity, for his ability to give life to past greatness, and for his capacity for enthusiasm...