Word: footholds
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Weir is not necessarily on the way out, but the homeopaths' prestige in Britain is. Except for the foothold at the palace, homeopathy is pretty much out of fashion. Other doctors no longer bother to keep up the tradition against fraternizing -chiefly because they feel that homeopaths no longer threaten their medical power...
...part of the $6,044,748 it took to buy OAP's 77% interest in Bosch, borrowed the rest. With Bosch, Amra got a company that grossed over $19 million last year, a plant in Springfield, Mass, and a bagful of German patents. Allen & Co. also strengthened its foothold in the electric manufacturing field...
...tutoring school has returned to Harvard. This vicious institution, which once made a shame and a joke out of a Harvard degree, has regained, so far, only a limited foothold. But in all except size the reborn "tute schools" resemble the lecherous harpies which once crouched over Harvard Square and drained the College of every claim to honor and integrity...
...have been forgotten. The Administration may be content to point to the rule against their use and take no action until a stroke of chance unveils some student who has been taking the "easy way out." If this attitude is adopted, the tutoring school may make secure the foothold which it has regained. The small sector of the student body which has succumbed to the lure of the harpies can befoul the whole College, and the time for opposing action is now. The University should use every moral and legal pressure at its command to eradicate this disease before...
...fight for partition, the world looked to it for a solution of the developing conflict. The U.S. Government considered calling for an international force contributed by U.N. members. But that might open the door for Russian participation, which the U.S. wants to avoid. Rather than allow Russian troops a foothold in the Middle East, the U.S. might take on the job itself. Military authorities estimated that at least 50,000 troops would be required; sending such a force in 1948 might create a hotter U.S. political issue than the one Washington tried to avoid by accepting Zionist demands for partition...