Word: acted
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...likely man chiefly because of his tax and budgetary experience, a talent sorely needed in the muddled affairs of the School Committee. At first, Barnes concentrated his campaign on this point, but he found it a deadening issue and has changed his ground to the National Defense Education Act loyalty oath and the future of Rindge Technical High School. He is particularly disturbed about the implications of NDEA for local school employees; under sections of the Act pertaining to guidance and foreign language training, the jobs of people hired by local school boards can become dependent upon willingness to sign...
They finally decided not to, and Barnes was sent to a German prison camp at Sagan. With the support of the senior American officer, he tried to counter-act Nazi propaganda by teaching a course in American institutions and organizing a mock election. "It was very significant to note that the difference in the prisoners' ability to make something out of the experience was not social or economic background, but education." The prison camp marked the beginning, Barnes says, of his great interest in education...
Rome, in finding for the Church, sustained the "broad" interpretation of the Act set forth in Lewis' recommendations. Residents of the area near Sparks and Brattle Sts., where the Church had planned to build 22 feet above the 35-foot limit, had hoped for a strict reading of the law, leaving Cambridge the right to limit, physical proportions of the buildings...
...University may not get a chance, however, to capitalize on its new-found freedom from zoning laws, according to Paul G. Counihan '39, counsel for the appellants. Counihan maintained that had he appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the broad interpretation of the Enabling Act would have been overruled...
...dining hall department has engaged Harvey J. Wachtel, a graduate of the Business School, to act as special assistant during the experimentation. Wachtel will dine in each of the Houses and help to judge the proposed changes...