Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Track coach Bill McCurdy gets worried when he feels too good. Although he attests to being "versus superstition," McCurdy does admit one ritual he performed faithfully in the days when high jumper Ty Smith was on the team. "Every time he jump, I'd turn away," confessed the track coach. But McCurdy maintains that he hasn't been coaching long enough to develop any real superstitions...
...instance vicious. The Daily Princetonian, in commenting on this effort to include all in the notoriously undemocratic upper-class eating clubs, has concluded that some students "did not have a social background which would fit them into the Princeton system," and inquires "Was it fair for the university to admit them...
...Veterans Administration hospital has an empty bed it must admit an ailing ex-serviceman even if his illness has nothing to do with his military duty. He simply swears that he has no means to pay for private care, and a 1935 law has been interpreted as forbidding the VA to check up on his story. Doctors and medical administrators have long protested this soft-headed provision, but to no avail. Last week Republican Congressman John Phillips of California told how it is being abused...
...award, financed by the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, follows a recent University refusal to admit future groups of Ford scholars. Yale said its applications have increased so greatly that it can no longer reserve for the Ford group the fifty places in the enrollment which it is requesting...
Testifying at the Du Pont antitrust trial in Chicago last week, General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. explained why Charles F. Kettering, the company's famed research wizard, never made the top policy committee. Sloan said that in 1943 he had proposed that the committee admit "Boss Ket," who invented the self-starter and helped in the development of many another product (e.g., the high-compression motor, leaded gasoline). But when Du Pont Chairman Lammot du Pont objected, Sloan felt that his reasons were valid. "We agreed," said Sloan, "that if [Ket] came on the committee, he would...