Word: eliciting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you for telling us (TIME, Oct. 30) what the English poets who were the youth of 1914 are doing under the impact of the new war. Would it be possible to elicit a statement of their present mental attitudes from Sassoon and Graves? They are of the tried troops of both action and thought, at once brave soldiers and honest men. It is appropriate to recall that Sassoon in 1917 made a public protest against the prolongation of the war in the following words...
...summer. The reality of their loss did not strike home to others because the names of the fallen were necessarily screened from an unearned public disgrace. But even then the shock was great enough to startle a protesting group of students in English into action, and to elicit a sharp defence of sound undergraduate teaching from Phi Beta Kappa. Now the issue seems to be pressing more heavily on students' minds. They cannot help noticing that many experienced tutors left last year for more serene fields. They know that for several of their teachers in middle group courses between elementary...
...undergraduate addresses are to be maintained as a part of the Sever program, it would seem logical that the method of competition be reformed. Some effort should be made by University Hall to elicit addresses by the leading members of the graduating class. And above all, the dates for the preliminary trials should be set, either early in March, or during the closing weeks of May after the divisional examinations are completed...
...Efforts to elicit the philosophy of A. T. & T.'s President Walter Sherman Gifford on lobbying produced this dialog...
...normally caused by a disease, a hyposensitive person may feel only pressure, burning sensations, numbness, prickling, tingling. "Such symptoms as pruritus and ticklishness need special study in this connection," says Dr. Libman. "That ticklishness may represent pain is suggested by the observation that pressure over a diseased organ may elicit laughter in a hyposensitive patient instead of pain...