Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...integrity and dignity of the big soldier-diplomat dominated the marble caucus room. George Marshall was, as always, firm but courteous, patient and persuasive. His flat monotone carried a note of determination...
Last year, as president of the Colorado State Medical Society, Dr. Sudan was a troublesome thorn in A.M.A.'s conservative side. He hired a public-relations firm which had been fired by A.M.A. for making "radical" suggestions. Dr. Sudan adopted many of the suggestions for his official state program: e.g., posting "fair" fees in doctors' offices and pushing prepayment plans. Such steps, Dr. Sudan believes, would improve relations between the general practitioner and his patients. A.M.A. has not yet changed its stand; but now (perhaps on the principle of "If you can't lick 'em, join...
...joined the faculty a few years ago in a campaign to make the girls quit walking around Cambridge in slacks and dungarees. After a stern battle, the rank and file agreed to wear these epitomes only on the upper floors of the dormitories. Miss Kitchin said in a firm voice: "Any girls in slacks or dungarees you see around here aren't Sargent girls. They're probably from Radcliffe or somewhere...
...first Freshman Smoker committeemen since the war found their entertainment program on firm ground last night as the Student Council voted a fifty-fifty grant-loan of $100 at a meeting in Phillips Brooks House...
...favorite in most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...