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...ultra-conservative committee formed to stop the efforts of radical groups to "foist a foreign concept into the school system," appeared this week to be further complicating the much-publicized Pasadena. California progressive education dispute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Group Organizes To Curb 'Liberalism' In Pasadena Teaching | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

Last week Johnny was named Seattle's "Man of the Year," and at a big civic dinner, with the governor in attendance, Johnny took over the mike to explain how such a little fellow could be so good. Deliberately feigning a strong Jersey accent, Johnny grinned: "Well, foist youse baffle 'em wit science and den youse have a brudder like mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Trouble | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...other government that feels it has been misrepresented by U.S. papers. U.S. Delegate Charles Sprague, ex-governor of Oregon and publisher of the Salem (Ore.) Statesman, called the treaty a "hazardous step" because it would force a government to distribute to its press any propaganda other countries wanted to foist upon it. The Russians and their satellites also voted against the treaty on completely different grounds: they are still pushing for a treaty that will stop the "warmongering of the Western press," i.e., any news the Communists don't like. Even though the U.S., Britain and other countries will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Hazardous Step | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...large degree on our ability to see and correct the evils of our existing institutions, sooner than to throw our system overboard in favor of any one of the many forms of Utopia which our Washington D.C. reformers and some collaborators in university classrooms are trying to foist upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 5, 1952 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

About 40 percent of the men belong to fraternities, all of them upperclassmen. Unlike some mid-western universities. Dartmouth has been careful not to let the Greek letters dominate campus politics. Fraternity men do not band together to back their own candidates for office or foist their whims on a neglected student body. In the tremendous camaraderie that is Dartmouth life, they fail even to develop the exclusive clannishness for which they are most often criticized...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Dartmouth Men Live Sociable, Woodsy Life Undergrads Learn Poise in Liquory, Girl-Soaked Weekends | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

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