Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appear, from time to time, more accommodating. But Communist actions have so far provided no real ground for believing that the threat to the Free World has sensibly diminished," said the white paper. "[Communist] military strength continues to grow at an impressive rate . . . The Soviet Union and her Eastern European satellites have some 6,000,000 men under arms. On the German front, the Soviet army could be increased to well over 100 divisions within 30 days...
...with the exception of Cohen and Rittenburg in the 60-yard hurdles and Alpers, Alan Howe, Little, and Rittenburg in the mile relay few of McCurdy's squad have indicated that they can win their respective events against the IC4A's field of more than 600 competitors from 42 eastern colleges...
...violation, which was discovered only by accident, concerns the freshman and a friend who, with the aid of Chicago Yale alumni and their friends attended an eastern preparatory school last year after previously completing high school. Since this group felt "that asking for a scholarship for two boys was an imposition," they raised $1,500 for the school's scholarship fund. The Chicago alumni argue that they did not violate the Ivy code. They contend that not all of the people who contributed to the scholarship fund were Yale alumni; that they did not know of the ruling until...
...Over the years I have placed several Yale rejects in prep schools not necessarily in the hope that they could make it the next year but with the sincere conviction that a year of specialized preparation would help them get into a good Eastern college or they would be better prepared for any other college. . . Therefore, it was most natural that I should contact Cheshire about Terry McGovern...
...boys made application to Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia in addition to Yale since they wanted an Eastern education, and had no possible assurance they could make Yale. An enthusiastic Harvard alumnus took them to Cambridge to interview Bill Bender, the Dean of Admissions. Ralph's application for a scholarship to Harvard was sent home to his mother to fill...