Word: conned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reaction to a third proposal which would extend rationing to other food items agreed to by the Administration was almost evenly split. Forty-eight percent were pro, 41 percent con and 10 percent undecided...
Perhaps the most powerful argument favoring the retention of the rationing measures was its success during the last three and a half weeks of the spring term, when a 5,000-pound wheat con- servation and a $2,400 cash saving were credited to the program. Contributions have been sent through Boston's Unitarian Service Committee to students at the University of Paris and the University of Vienna, and $300 was allocated to tubercular students at the University of Grenoble last week...
...other features of the present Constitution should be altered con-currently in order to clear the last traces of the present "closed-corporatino" system. First, a required University audit of all Freshmen Affairs books, and, secondly, the revision of the present amending procedure of the Constitution. Under the existing proviso it is impossible for any group but the Council itself to amend the Constitution. The corporation is not only closed, but was meant to stay closed...
...future civilizations should be left to con the records of the modern world, they will probably declare Albert Einstein the 20th Century's greatest mind. Among 20th-century men, he blends to an extraordinary degree those highly distilled powers of intellect, intuition and imagination which are rarely combined in one mind, but which, when they do occur together, men call genius. It was all but inevitable that this genius should appear in the field of science, for 20th-Century civilization is first & foremost technological...
Telegrams, both pro & con, had rained on the White House at the rate of about 3,000 a day-a total of 38,000. Nobody bothered to count the letters. In the House, proponents and opponents gathered signatures to petitions. Labor leaders stormed their arguments against the bill ("emasculation of labor's rights...