Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong, sure hands. His Administration, he said, was keeping constant vigilance. Yet the very next day he was off for a ten-day vacation on the Georgia estate of ex-Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, last year's prophet of a hair-curling depression-and a good deal of the meaning seemed gone out of his message. Ike in the White House at such a time would have meant presence, and perhaps a national sense of day-to-day problems studied and decided on. Ike by the fireplace on a winterbound Georgia plantation was a remote figure...
...monarchs are to keep their individual thrones and sovereign titles. The federation, to be organized within 90 days, is to have one flag, one army, one foreign policy, one foreign service. Both nations will keep their own legislatures. A combined federal legislature will be set up to deal with federal policies, in which Jordan and Iraq will have equal representation. It will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head of state will be reviewed" if any other state joins the federation. This...
...subscribers and from scores of angels-some of them anonymous-across the U.S. who may not be able to tune in but feel in tune with the idea. Lecturers and performers get no pay; musicians play for a minimum of $8 a show. The station has a deal with both BBC and CBC to rebroadcast whatever it likes, borrows all the records it can use from local music shops...
According to Dr. Schatz, the dinosaurs were sluggish beasts whose metabolism (vital chemical processes) was so slow that they could keep their vast bodies alive without a great deal of food. In their age, he thinks, the earth's atmosphere did not contain so much oxygen as it does today. The dominant plants were mostly gymnosperms (conifers, ginkgoes, etc.) that did not excrete so much oxygen as modern plants...
Sweeping revisions in the non-science Honors program and the lecture system were proposed in a report released yesterday by the Committee on Educational Policy. The report, which will probably require a great deal of Faculty discussion, will first be presented to the Faculty at its meeting March 4. If approved, it will effect a large-scale change in the overall College curriculum...