Word: actually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action taken involves the consent of no more than a third of the members. And in this particular case notice was sent to every member of the common room before-hand informing him that resolutions regarding the draft would be proposed at the next meeting. Furthermore, in reporting the actual vote we effectively disassociated any member not present from the position taken in the resolution. Larry Blum, Resident Tutor Maurice Ford, Assistant Senior Tutor Caroline Bynum, Non-Resident Tutor
...they arrive in the United States. ASPAU has arranged through the Experiment in International Living for a month's "homestay" with an American family--usually about 100 miles from the college they will attend--before actual registration. The homestay is designed to help the student get his bearings on American society and serve as a buffer against the reactions of Americans to a black foreigner...
...Susitna River valley, 1,500 ft. above sea level, the mountain sweeps to 20,320 ft. above central Alaska in a single cascade of rock and ice. In summer, McKinley is merely inhospitable; in winter, it is deadly. For one thing, it is among the coldest places on earth. Actual temperatures range to as low as-100°. Until Feb. 28, no one had climbed Mount McKinley in the wintertime. The men who did it finally made their way back to civilization last week. If what they went through is taken as a warning, no one is likely...
...recruitors--especially the first recruitors, the alumni--practically a free hand in deciding which students are worth going after. Most alumni are aware of this vagueness, but many of them add to it their own conception of "what Harvard wants." And that conception may stay fixed while Harvard's actual wants--the kinds of students the dean of admissions and his staff hope to recruit--change a great deal. The dean may be hoping to bring in, for example, more small-town, rural students or Negroes; the alumni in Montana or New Jersey may be concentrating on the high schools...
...Zeligs, "Chambers . . . testified that Richard [his brother] had died on September 19, 1926. Whether Chambers knew it or not (and it is likely that he did), September 19, 1926 was the birth date of Alger Hiss's stepson. Timothy Hobson (an easy slip away from September 9, 1926, the actual date of Richard's death)." Zeligs attempts to tie this error into a chain of meaningful mistakes on Chambers' part...