Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bored stiff these days with talk of Princess Margaret, but when Margaret's name is mentioned, her sister's subjects prick up their ears. Last week, sparked by the fact that the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk, Premier Peer and hereditary Earl Marshal of England, went to call on the Pope for the first time in 18 years, rumors were once again rife about Princess Margaret. Flimsily constructed on the supposition that high-ranking Norfolk's papal audience could only concern an equally high-ranking cause, the rumors took three forms...
Union leaders threatened to call a general strike for March 1, the day Kekkonen becomes President. The President-elect's first move was to pick his defeated rival, Social Democrat Karl-August Fagerholm, to form the new government. Finns took this as fresh evidence that Kekkonen is his country's shrewdest politician. If the unions strike, they will be striking against a Socialist Premier...
While ignoring the trend may appear ludicrous, it is all too natural. The tendency to call Harvard an educational institution and let education end at the classroom door is strong, especially when a partial solution for undergraduates has been found in the House system...
...University must therefore either make its administrators into planning experts and equip them with pertinent information, or it must call on outside assistance. The first course requires expensive additions to the administrative staff, giving Teele's office the time and facilities to do an adequate job. The second requires nothing but exploitation of existing resources...
...same statement, the League gave "the recent policies of John R. Thomson . . . wholehearted approval," and added that it will help to try to dissuade conservative speakers from speaking here. This was in obvious reply to a petition submitted to the Council which would call for Deans' Office action against such maneuvers...