Word: janus
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...shuttling between Paine and Widener in search of music hopelessly divided between the two buildings; or who have failed even to obtain a glimpse of music whose habitat is known. For the Paine Hall "library" is often so overcrowded that no chairs or tables remain free, and the Janus of the door to the Widener stacks refuses free access to undergraduates...
...Robert Dunn '37, Arthur Ellison '37, Lawrence M. Finkel '37, William II, Lodgard '36, Michael Linenthal '36, Philip A. Lief '38, David P. McAllester '38, Wiley E. Mayne '38, Edward O. Miller '37, Edwin K. Packard '37, Vincent J. Rossi '37, John A. Sullivan, Jr. '38, Christopher G. Janus '36, Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, and John Lagsdin...
...manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing 'and/or,' that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients. We have ever observed the 'thing' in statutes, in the opinions...
...that the president had condemned men and companies whose explanation he had not first sought to obtain. As the editorial viewpoints of several newspapers suggest the proceedings in the United States Senate last Saturday echoed the very suggestions of the Colonel. "Nemo" must have had a blue Monday Christopher Janus...
Once more the vernal cherry-tree is green in memory; and in this false dawn of spring, Art come creeping to Harvard Square. Janus-faced, she looks both before and behind. Looking ahead with the Surrealists, she surveys the works of the Conqueror Worm, when men in the morgue shall be all but ashes and the halibut on the table shall be all but dust. And harking back with Harkness, she emblazons the cravats of Cambridge with a new heraldry...