Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question could be phrased, "Do you want part of your contribution to go to the Student Council? If so, how much?" Originally, the Council combined the charity solicitations with its drive for the students' convenience. This is fine, but the dual purpose of the drive should remain clear...
Organizations referred to by the oath are those classified as subversive by the Attorney General last year. Since Harvard groups never use national names, none of them are listed specifically. "But it is clear that some of them, may be associated with these national 'subversive' groups," the HLU president said...
When that outburst failed to clear out the unashamed newsmen, the mayor warned that "either you get out of here this afternoon or I will." While he damned all the hullabaloo as an unreasonable invasion of his privacy, the newsmen thought the mayor's coy conduct a bit unreasonable also; his secret departure had been a sure way to bring the press tallyhoing after him. Said one reporter sourly: "We don't like this business any more than you do. I'd like to get out of here and take in a football game." At that...
...remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. He hailed the abdication of Edward VIII as a "clear testimony of the British people in support of Christian marriage and Christian moral ideals...
...initial difficulty attendant to this problem is finding a good definition of the term "whole man." Is he the "complete Rabelaisian man" to whom Aldous Huxley refers: "great eater, deep drinker, stout fighter, prodigious lover, clear thinker, creator of beauty, seeker of truth and prophet of heroic grandeurs?" To know whether or not Harvard trains "whole men" it is necessary to know what such men are and it will be difficult to arrive at any definition which will not either outrage the convictions of a segment of the student body or else be so abstract as to be meaningless. Furthermore...