Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very different Radcliffe in her day. "We couldn't go into the Square without gloves or hats, nor could we wear pants in theatrical productions. We lived in boarding houses. No women were allowed in Harvard Yard. However, our main advantage was having tiny classes. Professors walked across the Common to repeat their lectures for us. That gave them an extra bonus, as their salaries were miserable...
...Where Does The Republican Party Go from Here?" is the topic of his address at 3:45 p.m. in Aldrich 112 at the Business School. He will also speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Both meetings are open to the public...
...British civil servant in India), Butler fell in with the family tradition quite unintentionally. His rise to power in the Conservative Party was dogged by the memory of 1939, when, at the age of 36, it was his duty to defend the Munich disaster in the House of Commons (the Foreign Secretary, Halifax, was in the House of Lords). The formidable quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked him away in what was to become the Ministry of Education. There he hammered through...
That deepening problem of modern times-giant airliners swooping in on airports thick with ever-increasing traffic-sat like a brooding presence last week at the meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. The conference's purpose: to select a common system of worldwide air navigation...
...driven by a privileged group of dogs. The dogs themselves, of course, are at the mercy of the whims of the designers, i.e., the breeders. Author Wallop's protagonist is Hobbs, an English bulldog-one of the more fantastic dog designs. Hobbs owns 250 shares of General Motors common deeded to him by a Miss Galloway, "a maiden lady of honored memory and considerable wealth." Hobbs has a manservant and subscribes to the Wall Street Journal. It seems to be Wallop's idea that Hobbs and his pals-poodles, Afghans, et al.-can improve on the behavior...