Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-backed committee chair, Chairman Vandenberg was obviously feeling pleased with his contribution. After more than a month of hearings and five days of closed-door conferences, his Foreign Relations Committee had approved, by unanimous vote, the first draft of the European Recovery Program. The job had been done without a major fight...
...having earned a reputation for getting things done, he had risen to Permanent Undersecretary and a knighthood. He is an iron-willed negotiator. At an UNRRA conference in Montreal in 1944, he held a deadlocked meeting in session most of the night, finally convinced Russia's delegates that they had misinterpreted their instructions from Moscow. After the war, despite an offer to become Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office, he returned to Oxford...
...winners, arguing the affirmative of the topic, "Resolved, That the United States should cease unilateral action in foreign affairs," suggested that this country submit all major action in foreign relations to a majority approval of the United Nations assembly. Only after this had been done, Big Red speakers assected, should the U.S. take action, Cornell debaters were Alvin Arnold and Martin Hummel...
...Club, and more recently the Theater Workshop, have been struggling with Sanders' physical layout. The stage itself meets the requirements of Elizabethan drama, and impressionist plays like "Our Town," where any hare platform will do. The choice of plays has often revolved on the problem of what can be done with poor old 16th century Sanders. In some cases, a whack at a play that is neither impressionist nor Elizabethan has produced ingenious efforts at staging the near impossible, but for the most part, the Sanders stage lias severely limited the selection of material...
Once a faculty member has finished composing his final examination, his connection with the course is ended. From then on the work is done by any number of assistants who, although they are probably just event college graduates themselves, have complete control over the grade received by each undergraduate. Most assistants have so many papers to correct that marking is certain to become come mechanical and is also likely to be affected by errors of carelessness from tine to time. Anyone who has found on obvious mistake in the marking of his bluebook and has attempted to have the course...