Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble in doing all the required work and some original research besides. He made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated in three years, and was an active editor of the CRIMSON all the while. In those days the paper did not run by-lined stories and consequently it is difficult to assess exactly what he contributed, but one remembrance of his days as Assistant Managing Editor still remains in the form of a framed page from the AME's Report Book of the year 1912-13. A hole has been burned in the middle of the page, and underneath, in a handwriting...
...Peronistas soon went to work-as they had on La Prensa-totting up a trumped-up "customs bill" of 17 million pesos that the paper was supposed to owe the government. If La Naión steps out of line, it can be expropriated by the government, which could assess the paper's value at the amount of the bill due, thus take it over without paying a cent. But La Naión has been careful not to step too far out of line. Recently, when the paper agreed to a Peronista "suggestion" that it run an editorial...
...82nd Congress, which concluded a ten-month session last week, has a mixed and contradictory record, hard to assess in the familiar pattern of two-party politics. In fact, Congress in 1951 demonstrated a marked further decline in the two-party system...
...Star-Times's 48-man staff worked around the clock on the big story. When the Star needed a detail map to show the destruction of the industrial district, Cub Reporter Bob Beason went into the water and waded and swam from building to building to assess damage. Reporter Bill Blair and Photographer Bob Youker persuaded a passing Army amphibious truck to ferry them about, were arrested for their enterprise; their soldier-chauffeur and truck were AWOL from Fort Leavenworth...
...Lesson," of course, is fearfully modern and different, and hence it is almost impossible to assess. I found it very interesting. Nellhaus' translation appears to be excellent: certainly the play emerges in English as well worth reading, and its poetry is smooth...