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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appears that Adlai Stevenson chose to pledge himself in favor of 90% parity supports not so much for the good it would do the farmer and the nation in general but rather for the good it would do for the Democratic Party. Despite his pledge, there is no indication that Mr. Stevenson is convinced it is a good farm policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Gold-Plated Group. To float the new issue, the Ford Foundation, which will get the proceeds, chose a collection of gold-plated co-managers to head the biggest syndicate ever formed in Wall Street. The names sounded like a roll call of the financial world's leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Every Man a Capitalist | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

After a good deal of talking, Sheppard's section finally decided to abandon, at least temporarily, any historical or philosophical approach to science. They chose instead to examine a book by E. Bright Wilson, chairman of the Chemistry Department, a man who is watching the experiment "very closely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Science Tutorial Meets | 11/15/1955 | See Source »

Dulles, giving Molotov no chance to blame the West for a failure at Geneva, chose to emphasize the points of seeming agreement ("a quite remarkable degree of parallel thinking"). "There is before us a realizable vision of security in Europe . . . provided-and of course this proviso is of the utmost importance-we can make similar progress with respect to the unification of Germany," Dulles declared. Molotov was forced to a "fallback position" that free elections would deprive East Germany's loyal citizens of the joys of Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Difficult Spirit | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

Hamuel H. Beer, chairman of the department of Government, was elected state chairman of Americans for Democratic Action at the organization's annual convention in Boston yesterday. The delegates chose Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, as a vice chairman, while they gave offices to three others from the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADA Picks Beer As State Leader | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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