Word: iota
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...summaries of archaeological and paleontological activity that occasionally appear in your Science department entitled "Diggers" are fine?as far as they go. You report only an iota, however, of the vast amount of work that goes on in these extremely important fields constantly. How much better "Diggers" [TIME, April 25] would be, for instance, if you had told about Halvor H. Skavlem, a 78-year-old Wisconsinian who has devoted many years of his life to studying Indian relics and is the only white man who has ever discovered and imitated the lost Indian method of chipping flint arrowheads with...
...raise an endowment fund by outside subscription. As to library and laboratory, their liberality knows no bound short of an unbalanced budget. Undergraduates are trained to the manipulation of microscope and dissecting knife. Doctorates in philosophy are awarded for theses on the digamma in Anglo-Saxon or on the iota subscript in Greek dialect. But if young men and women are bent upon analyzing the life about them, on assembling the results of their observation in dramatic character, upon organizing it in dramatic action illumined by the accent and vernacular of today, they and the teacher who abets them...
...oppose the idea of patriotism to the idea of international solidarity, as if they were conflicting and irreconcilable conceptions. The League of Nations does not supersede individual countries; it extends them, develops them and enlarges them, and countries that are members of the League do not lose an iota of these inalienable sovereign rights which are their protection and their pride...
...broke into a series of discordant yells and ear-splitting howls, which they mellowed by clanking cow bells and blowing whistles. The remaining members of the Reichstag did not help matters by hissing and roaring long and loud, "Throw them out." Neither did Herr Bock diminish the noise one iota by waving his private bell and squeaking "Order! Order!" Finally, everyone had to stop to draw breath. Officials began to call the roll. Everyone waited for the L's and the T's with breath bated and hearts palpitating. The Communists yowled whenever a Communist failed to answer...
...longer fettered by that rather unpleasant creed to which our worthy Founder subscribed--is that Catholics, in common with other people, maintain the required standards of scholarship and discipline. As for Catholic students having "banded together," and having "even a club", I fail to discern that it is one iota more sinister than the activities of the Masonic Club, or of the Menorah Society for that matter...