Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion, introduced by Councillor John D. Lynch, was apparently aimed as a reaction to a Cambridge Ministers' Association resolution criticizing the City Council for its recent motion that condemned Russian Premier Khrushchev's American tour...
Robert E. Gross, Ladd Professor of Children's Surgery at the Medical School, will receive the 1959 Albert Lasker Award of the American Heart Association "for distinguished achievement in the field of cardio-vascular research" in Philadelphia Sunday...
...federal government "should continue to help finance expansion at institutes of higher learning without undermining their academic freedom." "A partnership symbolized by this building has developed between the government and higher education," the Secretary commented. He expressed the hope that the Government would continue to sponsor construction by American colleges "to help young people realize their best potentialities...
M.I.T. will field a lineup consisting mostly of Latin American exchange students. The Engineers usually display a typically Southern Hemisphere brand of soccer, with sensational passing and shooting and frequent outbursts of temperament. The M.I.T. line is very strong on offense, with teamwork its only want. However, the Engineer backfield can be scored upon...
...America's pet hobbies is "pledging." The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much abused one. The pledge-making mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and Sunday School but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system of government. Harvard...