Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reports from Yale and Princeton yesterday indicated that all Big Three schools would adopt such a plan for 1956 in an effort to meet the rising costs of admissions administration...
Being a South African, I was very disappointed in your article . . . Why you should adopt this biased and unjustified attitude towards a man and a political party striving to preserve "white" civilization on a dark continent is beyond comprehension . . . The role of the white man in South Africa is that of a Christian guardian to the black people, who are, on the whole, a backward and unambitious race...
...hospital he was given food and vitamins in an attempt to nurse him back to health. There, one of the nurses, Grace Kim, who had already adopted a war-orphaned Korean girl, decided to adopt Ronnie. But despite his care, Ronnie developed alarming symptoms. An orthopedic surgeon made the diagnosis: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. A delicate bone graft was necessary. Nurse Kim made her decision: the doctors could take bone grafts from her own leg to reinforce Ronnie's diseased vertebrae...
...Dean went on to attack those who used the cumbersome expression "anti-anti-communists." To believe, as the expression infers, that any anti-communist must inso facto not only be good but beyond any sort of criticism. . . is surely un-American." To adopt methods which are essentially communistic will gain us nothing in our fight against communism, he continued...
University officials, according to the Council, hope that debate question will promote critical thinking among the participants and members of the College. The proposition to be debated is "Resolved: That American Colleges should adopt a policy of complete academic freedom...