Word: consisted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judges declared that Canisius had presented a strong case in favor of establishing a National Education Board to administer a federal aid program for education. This board would seek to remedy the highly inadequate educational conditions prevalent in many states. The board would consist of the 48 state commissioners of education and would be presided over by the Federal Commissioner of Education...
...Washington Post sent a can't-we-be-friends telegram to President Truman: YOU ARE HEREBY INVITED TO A "CROW BANQUET" TO WHICH THIS NEWSPAPER PROPOSES TO INVITE NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL WRITERS, POLITICAL REPORTERS AND EDITORS, INCLUDING OUR OWN, ALONG WITH POLLSTERS, RADIO COMMENTATORS AND COLUMNISTS . . . MAIN COURSE WILL CONSIST OF BREAST OF TOUGH OLD CROW EN GLACE. (YOU WILL EAT TURKEY.) . . . DRESS FOR GUEST OF HONOR, WHITE TIE. FOR OTHERS -SACK CLOTH . . . (The President graciously declined, wired the Post that "we should all get together now and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases...
...alumni publication can be the world's dullest piece of reading. Most magazines of this sort consist of long listings of marriages, births and deaths with little or no current news of the University. Happily the Bulletin has been a far cry from the usual library-cluttering monthly...
Since they had to do without human skulls, the researchers, led by Edward R. Dye, started out with hens' eggs-which, Dye explained, are roughly equivalent, for experimental purposes. Both are about the same shape (ovoid), and both consist of a rigid, fragile shell containing gelatinous material. Eggs will break when dropped four inches on a hard surface, skulls about four feet. But skulls and eggs crack about the same...
...college for women of Columbia University. It maintains its own faculty, and remains completely independent of Columbia College It has, however, a tradition reminiscent of Columbia's Freshman--Sophomore Rush, except that at Barnard they dress it up a bit and call it the Greek Games. The Greek Games consist of chariot races--one girl pulling, another wielding the whip and other Grecoid divertisements. The Games are reputed to be an even finer spectacle than the Wellesley Hoop Race...