Word: fending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food complaints fall easily into a cyclical pattern. First, the founding fathers insisted that all students be served at a common board. After 200 years of establishing a reputation for poor food, the University abandoned the Commons and let students fend for themselves around the square and in clubs. Agitation for a University-sponsored dining hall soon began and resulted in a voluntary commons at Memorial Hall in 1874. Support of this system finally waned, and in 1923 Memorial Hall was abandoned. Immediately pressure began for a good dining system. This movement ended in the present house system, which...
...Impossible." Murray, deep in trouble, learned about Lewis' offer from newsmen and reacted to it with the air of a man who will believe it when he sees the color of Lewis' money. Aware of Lewis' insinuation that the Steelworkers could not fend for themselves, he said: "The United Steelworkers of America and [the C.I.O] stand prepared ... to pool their resources for the common defense and general welfare of the labor movement." The Steelworkers are aware that the U.M.W. is itself engaged in a "mighty struggle," Murray added pointedly, and they might well have use for such...
...Harvards got so brave they began using psychological warfare on the Corps. Crimson rooters, remembering the Army-Navy fend over military strategy, sent up a new cheer: "Aircraft carrier! Aircraft carrier...
After a flurry of protestations and denials in Hollywood, the Eastern home offices of the five big studios (MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox, RKO Radio) put out a confirmation and a pious explanation. Their decision to let Oscar fend for himself, they said, was not "commercialistic," but "in the interests of less commercialization . . . The companies should not be in the position where they can be accused of subsidizing an artistic and cultural forum. In fact, they so have been accused often in the past...
...directors plan to install nine other handicraft shops besides their present carpentry shop. When their charges have attained the ability and maturity to fend for themselves, the directors will help them through the red tape needed to get working papers and a job. Both churches have ambitious plans for Adelheide. By May the Protestants expect to open a hospital that will accommodate 90 paralyzed children; the Catholics are planning to turn the Luftwaffe airport behind the village into a truck farm. The total population will eventually be 2,800, divided equally between the churches...