Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although it would be unrealistic to dwell on the tutorial system as it existed in the College of the mid-30's, nothing is a more nostalgic form of conversation. Invariably, Masters refer to the few years when virtually every student had an individual tutor, often a full professor or junior faculty member. But the system had grave difficulties and perhaps insoluble inner-conflicts, which exploded full-force in the face of President Conant...
...lives and deters wars. Once Arthur Radford was one of the hottest pilots in the Navy, leading an aerial stunt team called the High. Hatters, even standing in as stuntman for Clark Gable in the epic Hell Divers. But one of his wingmen of those days now prefers to dwell upon the solid and undramatic way that Radford led his men on the routine patrols. "Raddy had it even then, as a lieutenant commander," the wingman says. "You could see he thought bigger than his immediate job, no matter what...
...must, if belatedly, dwell...
...truth must rule all we think and all we do. No people can live to itself alone. The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. The economic need of all nations-in mutual dependence-makes isolation an impossibility; not even America's prosperity could long survive if other nations did not also prosper. No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people seeking such shelter for themselves can now build only their prison...
...desegregation. About 52% of the state's 3,759,000 citizens live in areas with less than a 10% Negro population; if the whites accepted school desegregation, their children would no more be inundated than white children in Chicago or Kansas City, Mo. Only 15% of Virginians dwell in communities of more than 40% Negro. When the Supreme Court handed down its school desegregation decision, Virginia reacted with calm reasonableness. Governor Thomas B. Stanley, a Byrd protégé, was widely applauded for his statement that he planned "no precipitate action," but would work for a program...