Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose of these meetings is to acquaint student scientists with other fields of education, and conversely, to enable non-scientists to discover what science is doing, spokesmen explained yesterday. The organization is set up for all University members regardless of field of concentration...
...compiling it, Assistant Professor Jacob Scher, helped by three Chicago Tribune staffers, took a firm stand against hackneyed journalese. Sample warning: "Regardless of the gravity of an accident, don't 'rush' an ambulance to the scene. Don't 'dispatch' one, either. Just 'send' one. Don't 'rush' the victims to a hospital. Just 'take' them...
...policy will not hold for the last class before or the first class after Christmas and Easter vacations, Ducey pointed out. At that time, attendance will be required for all Freshmen and Sophomors not on the Dean's list, regardless of whether they are taking an upperclass or Freshman course...
...like seeing Gone With the Wind with Sydney Greenstreet playing Rhett Butler and Sophie Tucker as Scarlett O'Hara . . .' My suggestion is that we interview the fatsos one by one . . . and suggest they consult a doctor. Of course, great singers like Melchior and Traubel should be kept regardless of heft, but minor singers could be given a year's probation and told to get rid of that candy box under the bed-or else . . . Opera would be a lot more popular in this country if there were a few wolf whistles mixed in with the bravos...
...Colloquialism, Please. All her novels are set in an English country house around the year 1900 (only one, Pastors and Masters, takes place after 1918) and all her characters, regardless of their age and education, talk in a language which is a combination of Gertrude Stein at her clearest and a book of Victorian etiquette at its most pompous ("Will you rise with your unconscious grace and ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They...