Word: brief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representative of the Liberal Union presented a brief recommending that the rules include a clause prohibiting discrimination on grounds of "race, religion, color, or creed" for all undergraduate groups except political and religious ones...
With its swept-back wings and dual power plant, the Skyrocket is closer than the X-I to being a practical supersonic airplane. Flying on its turbojet alone, it has a respectable endurance: about half an hour. In combat, the rocket motor could give it brief bursts of superspeed...
President Edward F. Burke '50 appointed the committee last night after executives of the Liberal Union presented a brief to the Council stating the possible effect to the oath on undergraduates who are not affiliated with the Navy...
...Liberal Union brief recommended that the Council find out what relation the oath has to Harvard organizations, and what the scope of its effects will be on non-Navy students who are affiliated, however slightly, with the groups...
Otherwise, there were the usual conferences and brief interviews; and as always, the stack of "reading-for-tonight" papers on the floor mounted to the toppling point. At 50, Robert Hutchins was slightly mellower in manner. But he could still get excited-now puffing a Fatima and pacing about, now plumping himself down in an easy chair to declaim across the room. Long ago, he had made up his mind what the ideal university should be. He thought Chicago was beginning to show signs of becoming one. "It is not a very good university," he said recently, in typical Hutchins...