Word: difference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college presidents as it might be. He looks on education as "a social process." as something very much a part of the community. In Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind a scholar's activities should have relevance to the immediate future of our civilization...
...Weber is a zealous scholar, hunting and trapping the smallest details. He is also a zealous critic, going well out of his way to lambaste certain "modern" writers (T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, et al.) whose beliefs and techniques differ from those of Hardy...
Little Switzerland last week tossed a big dash of alpine water on the hope that the world of tomorrow will differ conspicuously from the world of yesterday...
...came that dreadful day when the ether was done to death. Two U.S. physicists, Albert A. Michelson and E. W. Morley, measured the speed of light simultaneously in two directions at right angles to one another. The speeds were expected to differ slightly because of "ether drift" past the earth. They turned out to be exactly the same, proving conclusively that ether did not exist...
...danger-"likely to be deceived and imposed upon by artful and designing persons," declared an old friend, Francis Gudger. Gudger asked a Los Angeles court to appoint himself and another friend as the lantern-jawed, two-gunman's lawful guardians. William S. Hart Jr. begged to differ; he (and a bank) should get the guardian assignment. While the legalistic bullets whined and sang, the old hero, who admits to 70-odd and is worth about $1,000,000, lay beyond the battle, gravely ill in a Los Angeles hospital...