Word: clear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five of the windows in the office of T. Mellon & Sons are made of opaque, leaded glass which shuts out the contradictions of Pittsburgh's ugly business district. But a sixth window of clear glass opens like an eye in the blackened granite face of the old Union Trust Co. building on Grant Street, from which the Mellons run their family interests. In this window, at odd moments over the past fortnight, appeared an erect, grey-haired man in a well-tailored suit. Richard King Mellon was looking down into a large hole between Fifth Avenue and Oliver Avenue...
...activity. The Administration has traditionally held the attitude that it is best for students to be left alone in their extra-curricular affairs and to solve their own administrative and financial problems as much as possible. In most cases, this policy has worked wonderfully well, but it is becoming clear that there are some fields in which financial independence does not operate to the University's best interests. The Dean's office is aware of the problem in debating and has used its discretionary funds to keep the Debate Council alive. This solves immediate problems but not the long range...
Mather reported that the Marshal's "quiet vehemence" made the meaning of this reply clear even before the interpreter had repeated it in English...
...Mather said Tito made it clear that he will stand firm against Soviet attempts to impinge on Yugoslavia's sovereignity or on Yugoslavia's experiment with a planned economy...
...referring to the letter from Rome sent to Archbishop Cushing on September 6, which dealt with the current doctrinal controversy between the Center and the archdiocese. He said "this was the only clear statement in the message." He went on to say, "What we now have to do is prove to Rome that the doctrine is being contested...