Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of spontaneous student protests, and long-range concentrated efforts to bring a wider and healthier atmosphere of conflict and controversy to college campuses, the students invariably emerge on the short end. Censorship, restriction, and pressure are harsh words, and when they are applied to institutions of higher learning, they strike at the real meaning of education, a meaning that those too long separated from the search for knowledge have forgotten...
However, Dogherty does not think that the petition will succeed in forcing a Council referendum on the matter. "But the debate stimulated by such a campaign might bring out new and effective ways of strengthening the present Council," he said...
...vigor which they will bring to Congress we endorse the Democratic "radicals" running for the 86th Congress...
This battle between the Governor and the Senate is another issue which should help the Democrats. Last spring, Furcolo proposed withholding state income tax; this, he said, would cut down the large number of tax delinquents in the state and bring in the millions of dollars needed to balance the budget without putting any additional burden on the people. The Senate killed it on three separate occasions after it had passed the House...
...darkness," life was a fabulous affair for little Lady Diana Manners. She spent part of her childhood in the "celestial light" of Bedfordshire, where "the clouds cast no shadows," and at her grandfather's Belvoir Castle. The plumbing there was not much, but there were "watermen" to bring hot and cold water along miles of corridors, watchmen to pace the battlements by night, and a "gong man," who served as a perambulating clock. There was even an ancient serving-maid who was born before the Battle of Waterloo. (She was always shown to visitors...