Word: reference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks voted out a few old favorites. Set to be scrapped: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, ex-King Refer of Yugoslavia, the late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...
Letters of recommendation in general and character references in particular are usually meaningless, and when an undergraduate has to ask an overworked professor, to whom he is scarcely known by name, for a letter of recommendation, the matter reaches a point of absurdity. Of course, the undergraduate can approach the problem more conscientiously and go to some section man he had two years before, or to his adviser or tutor. In most cases, however, if the instructor is still at Harvard, he has to refer to the student's official transcript, which the graduate school will have in any case...
...pulled on the first floor), having the previous year been captain of the freshman crew in which, believe it or not, the stroke-oar position was occupied by none other than the now "first citizen of Boston," who, being a sea-dog, should have been was a landlubber. I refer, of course, to the Hon. Charles Francis Adams...
Back in China, people were not so easily deceived. They did not refer to Feng as the "Christian General." They had always called him tao-ko chiang-chun, or Turn-Spear General. But then, most American liberals don't speak Chinese...
...would come when the enemy was prepared. When would that be? "The conclusions of the Commission ... fix as the target date by which we should have an air arm capable of dealing with a possible atomic attack on this country at Jan. i, 1953. For convenience we will refer to this date...