Word: although
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College Social Relations Department, under the restraining hand of Professor Gordon W. Allport, has limited its zealots to sensible and reasonable procedures. Last week one misguided undergraduate got a quantity of polls from his victims in envelopes that were carefully numbered under the stamps, although the poll was termed "anonymous" by its author. Professor Allport has burned these self-incriminating documents-some students had expressed Communist views-and has sent letters of apology to all recipients...
...Although the names of those polled were anonymous to the student, the Social Relations Department recognized that this method could lead to abuse of their right to secrecy if the poll got into the wrong hands...
...contrast with his first lecture, in which he stressed the problem of an American depression as being more serious than the threat of a Russian attack, the Republican junior senator from Vermont emphasized the atom bomb as a preserver of peace, although he insisted that it should not be used "against conquered and enslaved populations...
...Although the temperature outdoors these days is considerably below this pleasant level the caretakers over at Hemenway gymnasium must try to maintain a constant 70 degrees every afternoon from 2:30 p.m. on. Coach Jack Barnaby and his squash team swing their stunted tennis racquets at the little black ball and expect it to bounce back with a normal velocity...
George Plimpton's main asset as number five is his skill at retrieving difficult shots. Although this type of defensive game has served him well he has added a few "winning" shots to his game...