Word: acquaintanceship
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...Supply Corps School (Harvard Branch)! It has been discovered in a roundabout way that student morale officers (both M and F) were busy planning social affairs, but as far as anyone could find out for a long time, their net accomplishment seemed to be the cultivation of a lovely acquaintanceship with each other. Scuttlebutt was rife on the subject of who was going to entertain whom in the very hear future when on Monday evening the matey came by to ask "All secure?" and "Are you going to the tea dance to be given for us on Saturday from...
...destined to be a long, intimate acquaintanceship, for your scheduled date of departure is less., than six weeks hence. Nevertheless, we look forward to a congenial and cooperative session with you and hope to see you dig in comfortably and relax this Sunday in preparation for your concentrated tour of duty at the Business School...
...opposed to similar courses that have recently been announced at Yale and Princeton, the new courses will emphasize a close acquaintanceship with the problems involved in government and literary forms, rather than a comprehensive survey of classical civilizations...
...than something more productive can be blamed on the many men throughout the world with the same idea as Dean Donham--the idea that it is not the duty of colleges to help men think their way through a difficult world by a process of mental development and broad acquaintanceship with the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Many seem to believe that the colleges' duty is rather to prepare men for the garnering of shekels by intensive study of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends" and Joe Wheeler's "Sizzlemanship...
Last fall Zivic fought young Davis in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Zivic gave the kid the business. Davis, stung by an alleged thumb-poke in the eye, forgot his professional acquaintanceship with the Marquess of Queensberry, relapsed into a fury of fouls. Disqualified and suspended "for life" (after kicking the referee), the Brownsville bully boy sullenly joined the Army...