Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ziffren spoke loftily of its value in advancing Democratic programs and principles. But the strategists recognized his bid for what Ziffren meant it to be: a rearguard action to preserve the dwindling prestige of the Stevensonites, and a liberal burr under the saddles of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and his congressional conservatives, who consider themselves the seat of party authority...
...Burr" on Facilities...
Opdycke attacked the idea of setting up a special studio center for students of fine and applied arts as a "burr" on the University's museum facilities. Such a center would tend toward a professional art school, with little use to Fine Arts students seeking an understanding of the elements of painting, he said...
...this respect, WHRB is in a most fortunate position. Virtually every building in the University is directly hooked up to the station through a complicated array of audio lines. Consequently it can broadcast programs direct from Sanders Theatre, New Lecture Hall, Burr Hall, and dozens of other buildings. Through the Lowell Institute, WGBH actually paid for the installation of the audio lines, but they were installed, and are still supervised and maintained, by WHRB...
Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, will discuss uses of the artificial satellite to be launched by this country next year, in a lecture entitled "The Scientific Value of Artificial Satellites." The lecture will be delivered tonight at 8 p.m. in Alliston Burr...