Word: confer
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King will inspect schools and housing in Roxbury, address a joint session of the state legislature, and speak at a passive rally on the Boston Common. He will confer with Gov. John A. Volpe at the State House this morning and visit Mayor Collins tomorrow...
...that only made the student body cheer and whistle all the louder when Jomo Kenyatta knelt to become a Doctor of Laws. Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania and chancellor of newly founded East African University in Kampala, placed his own tasseled cap on Jomo's head to confer the university's first honorary degree. "Do we call you 'doctor' now?" a friend asked as he was leaving. "No," said Jomo. "Call me Mzee...
...dollars-and-cents goal for the drive has been set yet; a total will be named after the trustees confer with Dean Watson next month...
Portland is probably the biggest U.S. city (metropolitan area population: 860,000) without a graduate-studies center, but that unhappy distinction is ending. In recognition of Portland State's rising academic standards, the Oregon Board of Higher Education gave the school the right to confer graduate liberal arts degrees. Currently the legislature is considering setting up a new state-supported graduate school. Now that the school's quiz kids have proved so bright, the chances are that Portland State will...
...superbly organized book in capsule form, it is limited to film available in archives, all of it at least half a century old. The result is too often a barrage of names and statistics, accompanied by endless cycles of grainy newsreel footage: statesmen shake hands, famous field marshals solemnly confer, the 14-in. guns boom and recoil, the tanks rumble, the infantry scatters. And the audience fidgets, uneasily aware that the horrors of war have begun to seem less tragic than tiresome, and that a picture is sometimes less eloquent than a few well-chosen words...