Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welcome in the new. Bunting curled around Pennsylvania Avenue lampposts from the White House to Capitol Hill. From nearly every store window beamed the twin pictures of Alben Barkley and Harry Truman. Expecting nearly a million elbowing visitors this week, a 1,300-member committee toiled feverishly to make the four-day show the biggest, most expensive Presidential Inauguration in history. After all, it was the nearest thing the U.S. had to a coronation, a rare chance for the republic's leaders to turn out in top hats...
Actually, said Acheson, Berle came to him with a report that one of the Hiss brothers had "associations which would make his presence in my office embarrassing to me." But Berle couldn't say which Hiss brother, nor what the "associations" were. Acheson did, however, speak to Donald Hiss about it, and getting his reassurances, "I had complete confidence in him and the matter was closed...
That, of course, cannot be what the Radcliffe administration desires. Everything should be done to make it clear that each girl can belong to whatever organization she happens to agree with at the moment, without fear that she may be jeopardizing her future. The latest recommendation of the Student Council that the Dean destroy membership lists at the end of the year seems fair. The recommendation, however, leaves to the Dean's discretion what should be an official ruling. The destruction of membership lists to keep political affiliation out of the permanent records should be a part of the Dean...
Examinations are here again, so it is time to make the following pleas. One of them is new, one of them is middle-aged, and the other has become a semi-annual classic. But all three, if acted upon, would help to make examination time even more a period of joy, gladness, and genuine profit than it is already...
...second thought, maybe the old-paper drive is just the place for Harvard examination papers. That is, to judge by the quality of the writing. The sort of English that characterizes most examinations ought to make even the most hard-bitten English A instructors shriek with shame. The time pressure inherent in the examination system causes a good bit of the poor writing, but at least some of it is due to carelessness. Authors of flagrant examples of careless writing--grotesque grammar, bizarre vocabulary, murky syntax-- should be reported without compunction to the Faculty Committee on the Use of English...