Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are four major questions which the committee seems to view as barriers to changing the membership ruling. Should organizations with Radcliffe members be forced to adopt a title containing both the words Harvard and Radcliffe? There is no reason for existing Harvard organizations, when admitting girls to full membership, to change their names to the Harvard-Radcliffe Advocate, WHRRB, or indeed, the Harvard-Radcliffe CRIMSON. Few 'Cliffites are concerned about the names and it would be unfortunate if the Annex Administration insisted on putting this stumbling block in the way of a worthwhile proposal. We can assume, however, that...
THERE are some who say that we cannot enjoy the blessings of progress without incurring in some degree the ravages of inflation. I don't believe it. I refuse to adopt the defeatist position that inflation is the alternative to unemployment...
Were Dulles to adopt a more realistic view of overseas Americans--that they are entitled and able to think for themselves--he might abandon what is becoming an increasingly untenable position. By announcing that he cannot be responsible for the safety of Americans in countries where no official United States delegation exists, and by requiring adult travelers entering such territories to sign waivers of U.S. protection, Dulles can effectively wash his hands of those who he seems to think are advancing to their death...
...hard. At midnight after a 17-hour day, Prince often gave Billy a packet of francs and sent him off to the casinos to learn how to lose gracefully. While Billy was serving as a World War II artillery captain in the Pacific, Prince wrote: that he wanted to adopt him and change, his name, so that a member of his family could carry on. Billy accepted, took over an empire that included the, Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago Junction Railway, Live Stock National Bank. Stock Yard Inn. International Amphitheater, and stock interests in Armour and other companies. But when...
Canada's dollar has always held close to the U.S. dollar -in value. Soon after Canada rejected the sterling system in 1853 to adopt a decimal-based monetary system, the government pegged its dollar on a par with the U.S. dollar. Later, Canadian money was freed to find its own level. In 1940 the dollar dropped to a low of 78 U.S. cents; as World War II progressed, Ottawa pegged its dollar at 90?. After Canada dropped all monetary controls again in 1950, the Canadian dollar began its slow rise to last week's high...