Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a brief visit to Widener and Houghton Libraries the official party will go to Dunster House to be received by Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics. Prado's son was a member of this House...
...Excellency Manuel Prado, President of Peru, will arrive in the Yard this morning at 10:30 o'clock for a brief two hour tour of the University. This visit is but one of his stops on a goodwill mission to the United States to investigate the effects of war on this country...
...recognizing that the Navy V-1 program and the Army Aviation Cadet and Enlisted Reserve Corps plans give students the opportunity for a brief college education, President Conant round "one inherent weakness" in "the fact that educational opportunity is still far from an accomplished fact." Feeling that accident of birth too greatly affect education, and assuming that "there are large numbers of potential officers in each age group who do not now enter college," he stated a desire to keep the most promising students in school and to send them on to college...
...politely informing them he preferred not to have Mr. Arnold appear. His reasons: 1) the bills in question (to curb labor racketeers) were not concerned with the Justice Department; 2) Mr. Arnold had "heretofore expressed himself" on the matter of labor racketeering and his views were well known. In brief, Mr. Biddle hauled Mr. Arnold off labor's neck...
...England scene. In lyrics like "The Colt" or narratives such as "The Death of the Hired Man" there is an unalloyed completeness of sympathy which is lacking when the author turns to broader themes. Though pleasant in its occasional lyrics, too much of this book is composed of brief epigrammatic lessons for the young. From a poet of greater intellectual stature such preachments might be of interest, but agricultural intuition alone cannot cope with the psychological problems of a mechanized society...