Word: barrett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position it commands in the scholastic community. College anywhere is an experience of youth that is cherished in the memory the majority and buried away by the hypersensitive few. But memories of attendance at Harvard are enriched by the intellectual imprint of such greats as Charles Townsend Copeland, Barrett Wendell, Santayana and others. Therein lies a great measure of lasting loyalty. Pure nostalgia often plays a part in bringing men back to Cambridge and thus exposing them to the initial taste of alumni activity. But perhaps the strongest drive among the forces behind the alumni is that of pride...
...Received the resignations of Earl N. Cannon and A. Colman Barrett, two management representatives on the Wage Stabilization Board, who were "fed up with the Administration's vacillating policy on wage control...
...money does hot excite her; she lives quite comfortably on her ?20 a week-top pay for The Company of Four-shares a house with two other women, a composer and a ballet dancer. The "horrible din" of their combined professional exercises doubtless explains why husband Philip Barrett continues to produce his road shows...
Bravely, the C.I.O. produced its excuses: native Tennesseans (some 70% of Oak Ridge workers) are traditionally tough to corral; James A. Barrett, top organizer of the A.F.L., had won a hefty head start by wartime control of A.F.L. construction workers who had since moved into the plants as operating employes...
...there was one place in Canada where the idea no longer seemed so preposterous. Arthur Ford's London (Ont.) Free Press editorialized: "Canadians will not take [the Barrett] suggestion seriously. . . Nevertheless . . . there is one, and only one, state of affairs which could possibly induce us to take such a step. If a time should come when the people of eight provinces believe . . . that their lives and destinies are being controlled and influenced by Quebec. . .it is conceivable that they might resent it so forcefully that some other condition than confederation might be preferable. This is not the fantastic projection...