Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when...
...agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South." Mr. Halberstam, despite his later denial of any partial viewpoint, strongly implies that the NAACP would be well advised to transform itself completely from an effective political pressure group to a neighborhood clean-up, paint-up, fix-up organization...
...White House, Connelly went along as appointments secretary. Last week Matt Connelly, 48, now a New York public relations counselor, was on the receiving end of an investigation: he was indicted by a federal grand jury in St. Louis that accused him of accepting money to help fix a tax case in the period...
...next step in the urban renewal scheme will be the appointment of a Cambridge Redevelopment Authority by City Manager John J. Curry '19. Curry declined to fix a final date for the appointment...
...only about half the food that pours into Les Halles. The rest is promptly reshipped to the provinces. The villain, as Herber Luethy pointed out trenchantly in France Against Herself (TIME, July 4), is centralization, which in France makes the smallest village council unable to pave a road or fix a school-house roof without the approval of a ministry in Paris, which makes all French roads pivot on Paris like spokes of a wheel, which has discouraged provincial markets and forces produce into Paris to find a buyer. Nearly a third of all France's food funnels into...