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"Running a Tight Ship" ... (Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 03/17/14 9:52 am) Even if I am absolutely not an authoritative source on English language usage, I wish to say that in all my life in the shipping industry I never heard the term "taut" but only "tight&q ...
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Bolivar House, Stanford, and Ronald Hilton, 1964 ... (David Pike, -France, 03/17/14 6:12 am) Mary Hilton Huyck's posting and JE's comment (15 March) bring me to look again into the causes of collapse of Bolívar House. The Hispanic American Studies program depended of course on ...
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"Running a Tight Ship" ... (William Ratliff, USA, 03/17/14 5:55 am) The "tight" / "taut" discussion has taken several twists and turns, but if I remember rightly JE mentioned "running a tight ship" and then David Pike related how Ronald H ...
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"Tight" and "Taut," Etymologies ... (John Heelan, -UK, 03/16/14 6:08 pm) When in doubt, check the etymology: taut (adj.) mid-13c., tohte "stretched or pulled tight," possibly from tog-, past participle stem of Old English teon "to pull, dr ...
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"Tight" and "Taut" ... (Clyde McMorrow, USA, 03/16/14 3:08 pm) John E may have hit on something. Taut implies to me a certain correct tightness. "The lines are taut" suggests that they are rightly tightened and shipshape, whereas "The lines are t ...
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"Tight" and "Taut" ... (Mary Hilton Huyck, USA, 03/16/14 10:06 am) I was curious to see whether my father had used the word "taut" appropriately (see David Pike, 15 March), and he most certainly had. According to the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of IdiomsRead more

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Bolivar House and Ronald Hilton, 1964; RH's Studebakers ... (Mary Hilton Huyck, USA, 03/15/14 4:46 pm) David Pike (15 March) has written a very interesting and, so far as I can recall, accurate recounting of the successes, struggles and ultimate demise of the Hispanic American Studies program at Stanfo ...
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"Tight" and "Taut" ... (David Duggan, USA, 03/15/14 1:45 pm) In response to David Pike (15 March), "tight" was a common metaphor for being inebriated (a pastime on this observance of St. Patrick's Day along Chicago's most Irish north-side ...
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Bolivar House and Ronald Hilton, 1964 ... (David Pike, -France, 03/15/14 7:05 am) John Eipper asked Richard Hancock and me (11 March) to "send a memory or two of those times" at Bolívar House. Richard has already replied. John's discussion began with the dress ...
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Latin American Studies at Stanford ... (Richard Hancock, USA, 03/14/14 8:00 am) On 11 March, JE asked for my comments on Stanford's Bolívar House. That was after my time. I left Stanford in May of 1959. I did write the president of Stanford, asking him not to ...
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"Apologia Hiltoniana," 1949 ... (John Eipper, USA, 03/13/14 3:15 pm) New content for WAIS has been slow today, which I take as an invitation to share more of my finds in the Ronald Hilton Archives at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Today's installment is a charm ...
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Decorum at Stanford in the 1960s ... (Henry Levin, USA, 03/12/14 11:03 am) Following up on JE's post of the Bolivar House dress code (11 March), I joined the faculty of Stanford in 1968. By then the rules of "decorum" had faded as accoutrements of a gilded age ...
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