Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Berry pointed out that Harvard's chief solution to this problem will be, as before, to provide the best-qualified teachers...
...executive committee is trying to force its opinions on the student body," charged Lionel B. Spiro '60. "We are a 'select' group with varied opinions," noted Paul E. Freehling '59, vice president. "Our votes should be backed by intellectual honesty, by what we think is in the students' best interest...
Without exception, the girls felt worthless and insecure. Though they paraded in mink coats and made a point of being seen riding in Cadillacs from expensive apartments in the best parts of town, they were forever afraid that the world was ready to laugh at them. To dull their anxiety they sought relief in drink (though none was technically an alcoholic); 15 used marijuana, and six took to heroin. Said one: "Being a call girl helped me overcome my inferiority complex. I used to feel very unattractive to men, but since so many of them want...
...hair in a classic bartender's bob, and he figures that a foot race has only one purpose: to find out whether one man can run faster than another. The problem is not so simple as it seems. When the big winter track meets bring some of the best milers in the world to the tight-banked boards of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, it is quite a trick just to find running room. Spikes slice close to bare shanks in the opening sprint for the pole; elbows have a habit of splaying wide when the pack gangs...
...Figures? Hearing the blast, the U.S. tobacco industry quickly replied. Said P. Lorillard President Lewis Gruber: "Our advertising has been and is scrupulously honest and truthful. Our claim has been a simple statement of fact-Kent filters best of all the leading filter brands. These are facts, and they are documented." Added R. J. Reynolds President Bowman Gray: The figures used in the congressional report were published in a magazine (Consumer Reports) in March 1957; since then, Reynolds has improved its filter to reduce nicotine by 32%, tars by 27%. "It would appear that the figures quoted in the committee...