Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precampaign promise to deliver a non-political speech to the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs. As befitted a man with high hope of capturing Nebraska's twelve Democratic Convention votes, he improved the shining hour by showing up for a luncheon meeting of the local Democratic Central Committee. Afterward he boarded a plane for New Jersey, where five more grueling days of campaigning awaited...
...Chicago's Civic Opera House stage just before he was supposed to stab his Carmen; or display such neurotic symptoms as getting too fat, e.g., Mario Lanza; or become overtly adventurous, e.g., Caruso was arrested for making a pass at a woman in the monkey house of the Central Park...
...RAILROAD PROFITS will be laid before the public in a $100 million ad campaign, if New York Central Boss Robert R. Young has his way. Young is disturbed over the fact that the industry earns barely 4% profit v. at least 6% for other public utilities, wants the roads to spend 7½% of their pre-tax earnings in a campaign to spread their financial "dangers" before the public...
...This central fact is now self-evident to many American political leaders of both political parties, to newsmen, government officials, and to a large segment of our people. But will it become self-evident to enough Americans to provide the consensus necessary for a new orientation of our national purpose and policy while there is still time for positive and creative action...
...thesis then is still a vital part of liberal education, and should remain central to any honors degree, the problem remains of rewarding the unusually intelligent student who has no desire to spend a good part of his senior year on a narrowly defined project. Seemingly, the reward of getting A's should be enough for those who do not wish to continue in the academic life, and if a grade transcript is not enough for the exceptional, a Phi Beta Kappa key would sufficiently represent to society one's undergraduate achievements. Honors in General Studies, merely as a reward...