Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University has consulted several insurance companies about the plan. Similar programs are in operation at M.I.T. Yale, and other Eastern colleges, and various groups here have long advocated that Harvard adopt such a plan...
...more peaceful times, non-recognition would not only be illogical, but it would restrict American diplomacy to one policy--that of hostility. If the United States should wish to adopt a less implacable attitude toward China, the hostility inherent in non-recognition would stand out in contradiction...
Students in a low division in a big university may be smarter than those at the top of their classes in small state colleges, Hershey noted. But most draft boards have been ignoring the test scores when considering a student, he feels, and he may be forced to re-adopt the class standings criterion...
...labels and truck bodies to, among others, liquor firms under his tax jurisdiction. King's committee also flushed five suspensions and one resignation in New York by asking 20 employees to fill out statements of their net worth. On the strength of such results, the bureau agreed to adopt an annual survey of employee income as part of its routine...
...teaching shows no attempt to inculcate students with the twin values of Christianity and individualism; 2) Yale alumni are overwhelmingly Christian and individualist; 3) Therefore these alumni should hold off contributing to their alma mater until it sets itself right. What Yale has to do, says Buckley, is to adopt a "value orthodoxy," a rigorous system of classroom and extra-curricular indoctrination plugging his and the alumnus' views. How, asks Buckley, can alumni get their money's worth when the old school isn't teaching what they believe...