Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Bender said that he would follow the example of the Dartmouth student government that forced the eight Hanover men apprehended painting up the University during the Harvard-Dartmouth weekend to pay repair fees amounting to between $400 and $500. Sitting as a judiciary body, the newly empowered Dartmouth student government further advocated a permanent suspension of all students proved guilty of future vandalism...
...week President Truman reported to Congress on the progress of "Assistance to Greece and Turkey." The report's optimistic conclusion: "All of the necessary elements for Greek recovery . . . can begin to be operative once internal order is established. . . ." But other reports from Greece indicate that economic reconstruction must follow, not precede, the establishment of law & order. TIME Correspondent Robert Low cabled from Athens last week...
...hungry for dollars, many have full-blown inflation. Colombia last week outlined to the Pan American Union planners a scheme for a $5 billion U.S. loan to finance industrialization of Latin America, stabilize local currencies. In Rio de Janeiro, U.S. -wise Brazilian Businessman Valentim Bougas urged Latin Americans to follow the ex ample of European nations, which met in Paris last summer to canvass their needs. Latin delegates, Bougas said, should get together at Bogota ten days before the conference "to discuss beforehand the Marshall Plan for South America." An other proposal that Latin Americans would like to discuss...
...would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto roads will follow." Nellie went to Palm Springs and bought 1¼ acres and a bungalow on the lee (east) side of San Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself, rented the three bedrooms in the house to guests, usually folks with tuberculosis or asthma. Gradually she expanded...
...Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble, though only the radar's electronic eye had seen the water...