Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Around the Corner. Nowhere, Stevenson continued, is it "so important that we stop the politics of misleading talk as in the field of our foreign relations. We do not belittle the 'Geneva Spirit.' We thank God that no guns are firing today. We are grateful for even an uneasy peace and we are grateful to the Republican Administration for the constructive steps it has taken. We are proud too of the Democratic record for bipartisanship in foreign policy-and we are especially proud that we have resisted the provocation of these Republicans who have smeared that record with...
...affairs these past three years and that has confused our purposes and frightened our friends if not our enemies. I mean creat ing or encouraging the illusion that all is well, or at least better, that miracles happened at Geneva last summer, that peace and security are around the corner like some other Republican blessings I can think of. Well, the fact is that our foreign affairs are not prospering any more than agriculture is prospering. The fact is that we should pray the more fervently for the success of the foreign ministers' conference in Geneva because our world...
...Park Street, around the corner from Little, Brown are the editorial offices of Houghton-Mifflin, whose trade division is headed by Paul Brooks '31. H. M. started as a book-store over a hundred years ago, joined with a printer, and, under a succession of names, has come down to the present as one of the most stable and respected publishers in the nation...
...workers challenged Dodds to do a week's work on a construction gang but were turned down ("From what I've seen I should almost die of monotony"). So last week they offered him a "safe conduct" if he would meet them on a street-corner to debate his charges. Dodds went, encountered storms of abuse but not much logic. "You really ought to be in a circus and not a Labor M.P.," shouted one. "What was I doing?" demanded another. "You kept the flies off the tea," said Dodds imperturbably. Dodds refused their pleas to apologize...
...year in research grants-half of it for basic science. Even more ambitious is the National Heart Institute's program. It is only seven years since the Public Health Service launched the institute with three men, three desks and three filing cabinets in a corner of a temporary building at Bethesda, Md. Now N.H.I, has mushroomed to an expert research force of 400. Of its $18-million budget this year, $5,000,000 will be spent within its own walls and $9,000,000 funneled out to 720 research projects across the country...