Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago the fate of 16 Poles almost broke up the San Francisco Conference which was planning the United Nations. Pretending to live up to its Yalta promise to broaden the Polish Government, Russia had lured the 16 underground leaders out of hiding. Then, violating their promise of safe conduct, the Russians had kidnaped the 16, tried them for "diversionary acts" against the Red Army, sentenced them to prison. The U.S. and Britain set up such a squawk that the Russians reduced some of the sentences...
...criticism aimed at the Thomas committee did not come only from the Communists and their confused comrades. The nation's press was almost unanimous in its condemnation. A spot survey by the New York Times showed that many plain citizens were seriously concerned about the committee's conduct. Some wanted to scrap the Thomas committee outright; others wanted to do away with the whole system of congressional investigations...
...Clubs will alternate for most of the program and then get together to sing "Old Nassau," "Fair Harvard" and an American folk song. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard singers, sharing the podium with Princetonian J. Merrill Knapp...
...name-tablet in Memorial Church, coupled with a $500,000 scholarship fund, for commemoration of the University's Second World War dead. In itself it simply represents the expectable hesitancy on the part of the chieftains of the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs to conduct the fundraising campaign which the undergraduate-endowed Student Activities Center would involve. But justified resentful response to the decision will rest with the near-chicanery of the Committee's procedure and its continuous hush-hush policy...
...Christopher Lonsdale, now a ruddy, gruff and silver-haired 61, the theories of most modern pedagogues are so much "poppycock." "Keep 'em happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...