Word: exceptionably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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* Most notable exception: Prokofiev's score for Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky.
...Pressure of Prices. The pressure which might provoke the fit was continuing high prices. Labor had behaved with laudable restraint. With the exception of the always exceptionable coal miners, there had not been a major new strike in six months.* But labor could not sit still forever. Labor figured that if prices stayed up any longer, wages would have to go up. And if another spiral plunged the nation into a bust, then industry would have to answer for it. To a large degree, labor was right...
Yeshiva's handsome, young (35) president, Dr. Samuel Belkin, seized the special occasion to take exception to some of the methods used by "misguided zealots" to improve understanding between Jews and Christians. "The world today," he declared, "suffers from a laxity of faith and the great need of this...
Chamber of Horrors. Lucy FitzGerald chose to live in London, in a house whose front windows looked out on a zoo, the back windows on a cemetery. The dim living room was papered in dark green-a "chamber of horrors," groaned Poet FitzGerald, "[in which my wife looks] like Lucretia...
Added to the necessity of an early start is the desirability for honors. Because of the present hair-splitting standards of the graduate schools, any chemistry major who plans on advanced work must aim at least for a cum laude, and to qualify for his Latin suffix must straddle himself...