Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the Trial" editorial of October 20, raises a very timid and blushing doubt on the constitutionality of the Smith Act and goes on to question loyalty case procedure. It isn't that it makes much difference whether Communists are jailed or federal workers fired for political beliefs; the big issue is whether everything is done with "procedural safeguards." A yawn from the writer and the piece is done...
...rather comforting document. Not only did Harvard compile a $497,753 surplus in 1948-1949, but it was able to do so while many other colleges and universities were cutting courses and firing teachers in unsuccessful attempts to lick recurring deficits. However, the Report also shows up the big weakness in Harvard's apparently strong financial position--the University's unrestricted reserve is sharply declining, because there are certain sick departments inside the outwardly healthy body...
...Other big money losers in the Harvard family are graduate schools. The chief worries here are the Divinity School, which has almost always been in the red, and the Medical School, whose woe is increased by the high costs of its many research programs...
Half-time found the Dartmouth cheering stands being serenaded by the Crimson band. It had been announced previously that the visiting stands would get the cold shoulder from the musical organization. They got the serenade, all right, but the big bass drum was left behind. The Harvards were playing it safe...
...patrons as more "dignified" than the usual customer. Some of them have been going to his shop for as long as 40 years and in at least two cases four generations of a family have taken their business to La Flamme's. It is this informal, one-big-happy-family atmosphere which brings people back and which prompts old grads to revisit La Flamme's whenever they happen to be around Boston...