Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take as many risks as perhaps we ought to," King adds, "but a $2000 a year scholarship is a pretty high investment. There is a danger to us that we will lose our investment if a boy doesn't do well at Harvard, and there is a danger for him if he finds he can't compete...
...lies in standardized secondary schooling--those schools which fail to meet the minimum standards imposed by Ivy League colleges simply are not considered at admissions time. President Emeritus Conant has been a strong advocate of this "pull the high schools up by our bootstraps" theory of admissions, despite the danger of leaving the the small town high school irrevocably behind...
...Harvard must stand firm in the coming decade as a bulwark against the grave danger of lowered academic standards," J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday...
...American stage more steadily and wholly than nearly any American. "Due to the nature of Broadway--the blockbuster mystique, you know, it's got to be big and bangy," he detects "a tendency to look for the Great American Play all the time ... I think there's a danger that the more temperate drama might be washed out of sight in favor of a play like Niagara, that indunates you... I think the chief danger is the acceptance of excitement for excitement's sake...
...increased its advertising budget 25% for a campaign to warn stockholders against tips and rumors, advised: "Hold your money tight when anyone gives you 'the inside dope.' " Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the U.S.'s biggest brokerage house, began to run ads in 210 newspapers entitled "Danger! Inside Tip Ahead." (It was the same ad Merrill Lynch used in February 1947, when the Dow-Jones industrials were at 180 v. 605 currently.) The Securities and Exchange Commission also got into the act; it said that it had observed "indications of increased manipulative activity" and warned that...