Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...make assurance doubly sure, posterity-minded Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, publisher of "the world's greatest newspaper," immolated select portions of his own prose (Freedom of the Press, What Is a Newspaper) inside the cornerstone of his Chicago Tribune's new radio station building on Michigan Avenue...
...taken the Congregation of Rites a long time to make up its mind to the innovation. There was, said one Vatican official, a "psychological aversion to electric organs because they are so often used for jazz music...
There have been many lists of the best books-the ten best, the 100 best, etc. What about a list of the ten most boring? Editor Fon W. Boardman Jr. of Pleasures of Publishing, a Columbia University Press trade letter, thought it might be fun to make one. He polled several hundred U.S. librarians, editors, authors, reviewers and schoolteachers, asking them to send him a list of the ten classics that have bored most people most. Last week Boardman announced the results...
...citations to little-known reference works of a highly technical or abstruse nature." It is also wise to require students to read books and articles that are in short supply ''or not even available at the college library," thus providing "a splendid opportunity for you to make deprecating remarks about the provincialism and superficiality of the library and its lack of service to real scholars." Furthermore, a professor can do wonders for his prestige by occasionally pointing out "that the general educational level has fallen off lamentably since the days when you were a student...
...stature of your colleagues . . . and one most effective way to [do this] is to affect shocked surprise when a student cites another instructor. Just raise your eyebrows and say, with the proper emphasis, 'Did Professor Jones say that?' It is more devastating if you do not make any other comment, even if you could think...