Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attributes the enrollment quotas to two factors: 1) The Allston Burr Lecture Hall, which is expected to house all General Education science courses, will not be completed until next year. 2) Freshmen for the first time this year will have to take the entire General Education program of three courses, thus swelling the number of G.E. students...
Another $75,000 was received from the Allston Burr estate, bringing to $1,878,000 the money received since his death. Part of this is being used to pay for the new General Education building...
...precepts of life in official Washington, Congress should have reacted to a bureaucrat named Hervé L'Heureux like a fat man trying to get a burr out of his shirt. Not only does his name have a suspiciously foreign ring (actually he was born in New Hampshire), but the very fact that L'Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag...
...somewhat lumpy blend of slapstick comedy and dead-serious melodrama. Gambler Robert Mitchum, after being alternately wooed and walloped by gangsters, finds himself in an isolated Mexican resort trying to cope with a plot that defies analysis. While awaiting the arrival of the criminal mastermind (Raymond Burr), Mitchum patches up a newlyweds' quarrel; exchanges terse dialogue and melting looks with bosomy Jane Russell; plays straight man for Vincent Price, a hammy Hollywood star...
...course, there is-a moral obligations to Mr. Burr. But the obligation is to use his money for the great good and the great need...