Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graduate School Dean pointed out that changes made thus far on the basis of the questionnaire are "nothing sensational," but revealed that every Department has had at least one meeting to discuss the poll's results...
Readers who plow through I Wanted to Write may wish that Tarkington had been around to discuss it with Roberts. He almost certainly would have cut out the ten-page list of people to whom Roberts wrote letters in 1935, together with the scores of pages of now-dull journeyman journalism reprinted here in full. He might even have suggested, as Roberts' publisher should have, that I Wanted to Write should be quietly put away in an old trunk...
...humanities committee of which Antonio G. Haas '46 is chairman will cover subjects including English, History and Literature, Philosophy, and Fine Arts at 8 p.m. Thursday. Roy F. Gootenberg '50 will head a later group to discuss social science disciplines such as Economics, Government, History, and Social Relations...
...institute was organized in the spring of 1946, when the president of Lowell Institute in Boston met with the presidents of Harvard and other colleges in the metropolitan area to discuss the use of commercial broadcasting facilities for an experiment in adult education...
Among the other wartime experiences of Conant brought out in the article is his December 1945 trip to Moscow with Secretary of State Byrnes, to discuss atomic energy control with the Russians. He was entertained at a Christmas Eve dinner, "a supergala performance," in which Molotov served as toastmaster. After wading through a large number of toasts in "oceans of vodka, champagne, wine, and brandy," Molotov allegedly stood up and said "here is this man Conant, who probably has an atomic bomb in his pocket with which he could blow us all to tiny pieces..." He never finished. Stalin jumped...