Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good studio, but he would not allow me to put any of mv sculptures along the walls. He was such a Calvinist in those days." He managed to put up a model Workers' City near Bordeaux, but the buildings so offended the local authorities that they refused to furnish them with water for six years. In 1927 Corbu, with his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret, submitted a plan for the League of Nations. As he bitterly wrote of the incident later: "After 65 meetings of the jury in Geneva, the project of L-C and Pierre Jeanneret...
...become a traveling ambassador for General Electric (he hosts TV's General Electric Theater), spends much of his time carrying conservatism's gospel to audiences across the nation. Reagan's thesis: "Too many people today are inclined to depend on a centralized Government to furnish the answer to all our problems...
...Heller is an impressive man, of a type that especially impresses John Kennedy: the present-minded professor who tempers earnestness with cordiality and intellect with a touch of ambitious worldliness. In looking around for a top economist to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, Kennedy asked several economists to furnish him with lists of prospects, and Heller's name stood high on most lists, but what tipped the decision to Heller was probably that almost-never-was encounter in Minneapolis. Since the ramifications of the Federal Government's economic policies reach into every home and office...
Since Harvard turned itself into a Communist university along with the University of Chicago and Columbia, Harvard alumni are pretty disgusted with it. It may furnish a Communist President and a Communist member of the Supreme Court and a lot of other government Communists, but it can't play the American game of football or any other truly American thing...
...HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE. Federal outlays for medical research increased more than fourfold. The National Defense Education Act of 1958, "a milestone in the history of American education," provided federal funds to improve school curriculums, train additional teachers and furnish scholarships for bright youngsters whose parents cannot afford to send them to college. Social security coverage was broadened to include an additional n million persons...