Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the Committee on Educational Policy last night attacked that Committee's plan to admit students to the College as sophomores. J. Douglas Bush, professor of English, also revealed that he had voted against this point in the Committee meetings--the one vote cast by a Committee member against any of the advanced standing proposals...
...believe in three-year degrees, especially for the superior student," Bush said. "Liberal education should not be viewed as a prison term with one-fourth off for good behavior. I'm aware of the pressures of time and money, but these should not be the real consideration...
...proposal to which Bush objects would allow certain students who had been given advanced placement credit in three or more courses to be admitted as sophomores. Bush said this three-year degree would inevitably limit the scope of education because of the number of courses required for concentration and General Education...
...tide had set in and John Bricker could not stop it. In midweek, Connecticut's Republican Prescott Bush, one of the amendment's 64 original sponsors, publicly announced a change of mind, indicated he would vote against it. Five others admitted privately to the same change of position. Bricker could no longer count on the necessary two-thirds majority...
...once on safari, Hemingway met and began to admire an African bush pilot named Roy Marsh. In a recent letter to a New York friend, Mrs. Hemingway described Hemingway's all-out conversion to the air age: "Poppa is so keen on scouting in the Ndege [Swahili for airplane] at 600 or something shillings a half day [about $84], which includes bumps and rolls and swooping down on the deck and wing-brushing the chulu hills, that we will shortly have no money left except for gin and cabbage...