Word: firm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Applause for the leaders of A.F.L.-C.I.O. for their firm and knowledgeable stand in discussion with Mr. Khrushchev in San Francisco. Through that exchange of opinions, the lack of freedom for a working man in Russia stands out more strongly than ever...
With regard to ethics, the University is not confined to education by precept, but is rather forced into an exemplary role every time it acts officially. When President Pusey stood firm against the late Senator MacCarthy at a time when it was not yet fashionable to oppose the anti-communists, it was an object lesson which must surely have made a great impression on the students at the College. And when a distinguished professor was forced to resign in protest against Faculty politics, it also had an effect. The current problem of the N.D.E.A. funds presents a classic ethical problem...
...Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand was firm enough to form such airy medallions of understanding...
...last summer Jasper & Co.'s empire numbered 14 companies worth $42 million. It was ready for its biggest deal: the take-over of London's powerful real-estate firm, Lintang Investments, which owns the biggest block of apartments (1,200) in Britain. Jasper bought 51% of Lintang's stock from the company, offered to buy all other outstanding, publicly held shares in a $20 million deal. While Lintang was pending, Jasper also offered to buy up the stock, worth about $4,000,000, in Cardiff's Ely Brewery (259 pubs...
...Manhattan). A grandson of James Stillman, president of National City from 1891 to 1909, Rockefeller captained Yale's 1924 crew, spurred it to victory in that year's Olympic Games. Married in 1925 to a grandniece of Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller worked for the Wall Street investment banking firm of Brown Bros, until he joined National City...